• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@i...>
• Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:03:39 -0800

Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Elliotte Harold writes:
> 
>> . . . then this should be
>> addressed in a new version of XML rather than by abusing the W3C
>> errata process.
> 
> The W3C errata process [1] defines three kinds of change which can be
> published in a new edition:
>  3) Corrections that MAY affect conformance, but add no new features
>     These changes MAY affect conformance to the Recommendation.
> ...
> Seems to me the proposed name-character inventory change falls
> squarely in category 3. 


Seem to me it's clearly a new feature: several thousand of them in fact.

--
Elliotte Harold

• References:
  • Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?
    • From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@r...>
  • Re: Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?
    • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
  • Re: Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?
    • From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@r...>
  • Re: Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?
    • From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@g...>
  • Re: Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?
    • From: Jim Melton <jim.melton@a...>
  • Re: Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?
    • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
  • Re: Ten Years Later - XML 1.0 Fifth Edition?
    • From: ht@i... (Henry S. Thompson)