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Re: Possible changes for XML 2nd Edition

  • From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liamquin@i...>
  • To: xml-editor@w..., "xml-dev@x..." <xml-dev@X...>
  • Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:41:35 -0400 (EDT)

Re: Possible changes for XML 2nd Edition
On Wed, 24 May 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> Issue PE28:
> 
> Currently the XML Recommendation is silent about the handling of
> documents that contain "impossible" bytes.  For example, the byte 0xFF
> cannot appear in any UTF-8 encoded document.

This seems to me to be sensible.
It does mean that the parser has to check the encoding, though.

> Issue PE24:
> 
> Currently, system identifiers may or may not contain fragment identifiers
> (the string beginning with "#" at the end of a URI reference).

> We are considering changing this language to say that "it is an error" to
> use a fragment identifier. 
What about XPointer?  #id(simon)
You have to allow fragment ids, and to make them optional, I think.

Lee

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co-author, The XML Specification Guide
forthcoming: The Open Source XML Database Toolkit


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