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>From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...] >There's a lot of nasty stuff hiding in the bowels of Unicode >that will cause problems if it isn't specifically considered >and rejected. For example, would really want to allow an em >space as an element name? How about the zero-width non-joiner? >or the right-to-left mark? There are good reasons to limit XML >names to Unicode name characters. Pseudo-whitespace characters are a potential problem, but the bidi characters are probably pretty important to the people who write in RTL or mixed RTL/LTR scripts. I think common sense and actual practice will quickly show that people Do The Right Thing, even if it's not enforced by software. -- <a href="http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/"> Mark Hughes </a>
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