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Re: version numbers and infosets

• To: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: version numbers and infosets
• From: Jim Ancona <scarhill@y...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 05:40:55 -0700 (PDT)
• In-reply-to: <200207221007.LAA28384@r...>
• Reply-to: jim@a...

--- Richard Tobin <richard@c...> wrote:
<snip/> - a good explanation of the issues with allowing XML 1.0 parsers to
accept XML 1.1 documents.

> This might be taken as an argument for requiring 1.0 parsers to reject
> 1.1 documents.

No, this might have been an argument for requiring XML 1.0 parsers to reject
all documents with a version other than "1.0", if the authors of the XML 1.0
spec had thought of it. IMHO, it's not a reason for using an erratum to make
the change retroactively.

Jim

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