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> Evidently people don't want to be stuck with Unicode 2.1 for XML > Names. Now XML could either move to some newer version of Unicode, or > have some automatic mapping from Unicode character classes to name > characters, or just allow (almost) everything and say that it's not > the business of XML to deal with this sort of detail. The first two > both require parsers to change as Unicode changes; the third is a > once-and-for-all change - I think that's the main reason why it is > what has been proposed. It still doesn't seem right, but maybe the proposal just needs to marinate for a while. I seem to recall James Clark originally proposing that the rules not just move out of XML, but move into something else (another "layer" if you will). > I think most parser writers don't want to have to check for > normalization; it is the i18n people who are pressing for this. It'd be much better to have that normalization be done by layers above XML than to hard-wire such requirements into the core of XML. I'd certainly expect normalization rules to evolve. Of course, that'd mean getting a useful specification of how such layering is done ... and hmm, normalizing names might create trouble, it could easily change one name into another. - Dave
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