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RE: Blueberry/Unicode/XML

  • From: "HUGHES,MARK (Non-HP-FtCollins,ex1)" <mark_hughes@n...>
  • To: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:55:06 -0700

RE: Blueberry/Unicode/XML
>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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