[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Closing Blueberry
xml-dev has no authority and is not part of any formal process, but if it were a W3C WG and I'd been the chair, at this point I would assert that I hear something like convergence going on. a. Seems like history's on the side of people who want to get the Unicode X where X>2 stuff into XML NAMEs one way or another. b. Seems like almost nobody is willing to go to bat very hard for NEL. There are two good ideas for how (a) might be achieved: - John Cowan has proposed a sensible-looking method for writing the XML NAME rules by reference to Unicode metadata and thus achieving decoupling from any particular version of Unicode. I didn't see anyone raising problems with Johnn's approach, and lord knows there are people here who are qualified to spot 'em if they're there. Of course to use this fully, your Blueberry declaration would have to specify which version of Unicode it belonged to. [hmm... <foo xml:unicode="3.1">...</foo>?] - James Clark proposed massively fewer restrictions on the composition of names. On the other hand, there were some pretty strong arguments against this. As for (b), unless someone is willing to make case for opening up deployed systems to pretty massive breakage in order to simplify the lives of a small and shrinking piece of the software development world... as I said, if this were a WG and I were chair I'd suggest an evident lack of consensus in favor of this change. -Tim
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