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Re: version numbers and infosets

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• Subject: Re: version numbers and infosets
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:57:35 +1000
• References: <200207230943.KAA20828@m...> <004401c232a4$3a038610$fe193044@tbp1> <016301c232b5$fc361f70$32f5d90c@c1980223a> <00ca01c232d4$c5e5ea30$4bc8a8c0@A...> <p04330103b964443e9c9d@[192.168.254.4]>

 From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>
 
 
> How do I know that my document will be well-formed before I send it? 
> Because I wrote my code to make it so, and when I write the XML 
> declaration I assume that. I think the number of cases in which you 
> don't know in advance whether or not  you will or will not be using 
> Burmese/Cambodian/Amharic or, God help us, NEL, in the markup 
> somewhere, are vanishingly small.
 
You may, but a computer cannot.  Names are not just known
at schema-time: in particular, IDs are names too and they
are only known when looking at the instance.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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