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Re: The XML 1.1 Candidate Recommendation is published

• To: karl@w... (Karl Waclawek)
• Subject: Re: The XML 1.1 Candidate Recommendation is published
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:33:28 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <009701c27517$b07e9ae0$9e539696@citkwaclaww2k> from "Karl Waclawek" at Oct 16, 2002 09:26:52 AM

Karl Waclawek scripsit:

> If Unicode allows strings to have different spellings, than this is a generic
> problem for all applications processing Unicode strings. So why add the extra
> complexity to an XML processor to check for normalization, so that an application
> that would normally treat Unicode strings in a standard way suddenly can do it
> differently, because the XML processor already takes care of part of it?

It isn't really enough to take an XML document and just check normalization
as if it were a plain-text Unicode document.  The various strings in
XML documents -- names, runs of character content, attribute values, etc.
need each to be checked separately.

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