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Re: XML-1.1 -- just ignore it


normalizing names
> 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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