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Tim Bray wrote: > You could even revise the syntax rules of XML 1.0 slightly to allow > spaces in entity names &#LOWERCASE PHI; - no spaces or underscores! Ugh! Are spaces in in entity names normalized by the parser? <foo>&#LOWERCASE PHI; </foo> (Note indentation, just for fun) This will cause endless discussions whether this impairs performance too much, increases complexity unduly and so on. OTOH, if you allow only exactly one U+0020, then unsuspecting user *will* be trapped by automatic line wrapping. Let's stick with the rules we have. J.Pietschmann
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