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> I'd say a thousand or so programmers > updating (not rewriting) their parsers to support blueberry is a small > price to pay for the uncountable who will benefit from it in the future But that seriously underestimates the cost. It may only take one Microsoft programmer an afternoon to update MSXML (and even if not, MS could afford the develpoment cost) but the real cost is the lost time and confusion caused when newly created conforming blueberry files get distributed to the millions of installed systems and die with fatal non well formed errors, without any helpful warning to the end user that an update to the system would fix the problem. I mention MS but the same is true of all systems. That's not to say it shouldn't be done (I'm on the fence on that:-), but that it is going to be painful if it is done. I suspect probably the rules on XML Names should be changed although I'd rather see a system that permanently relaxed the rules to stop this happening again rather than a temporary fix for 3.1. (I can't see any benefit at all in the NEL proposal, for IBM users or anyone else, the end result of making NEL be white space is that it would be mapped to #10, in which case that may as well just be in the ebcidic mapping table and not affect XML at all) David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
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