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>We need all the people who think they need a new mechanism to get >together and thrash out what they really need. And very few of those >people are on the Core WG. I may be over simplifying the problem... It might be relatively easy for the various groups to agree on a document format to express name to character mappings, like Simon's Ent. So perhaps the W3C can recommend a way to describe the mapping being used in a document or document fragment, similar to <myStuff xml:entities="http://simonstl.com/projects/ents/HTMLrules.xml"> When it's 100°F out, it's hot for Ithaca. </myStuff> The W3C gets out of the naming game, but there is at least a hook that applications can use to get/cache/recognize character sets. Groups can cooperate on short and long names for characters as necessary, and XML doesn't change. Joel --
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