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At 11:00 PM +0000 3/8/00, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > >I chose leading "." precisely _because_ it violates 1.0. That means >if my proposed change is introduced in 1.1, it does not change the >interpretation of any existing well-formed XML. One of the strengths of XML is that to date it's been both forwards and backwards compatible. I'd really hate to break that without a very good reason, and I don't think this qualifies. +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible (IDG Books, 1999) | | http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/books/bible/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764532367/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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