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• Subject: Re: Unicode and XML (was Re: Remembering the original XML vision)
• From: Tony Graham <tg127171@t...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:59:54 +0000
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Tony Graham wrote at 17 Feb 2003 16:22:06 +0000:
 > Mike Champion wrote at 16 Feb 2003 12:35:44 -0500:
 > ...
 >  > Stupid question:  Why couldn't XML incorporate Unicode by reference rather 
 >  > than spending half of the spec defining the "unicode-character apparatus"?
 > 
 > XML 1.0 refers to both ISO/IEC 10646:1993 and Unicode 2.0.
 > 
 > XML 1.0 doesn't favour one over the other, so it doesn't "just
 > incorporate Unicode by reference".
 > 
 > XML 1.0 does not conform to the Unicode Standard -- for example,
 > normalising characters in markup was optional.  If XML 1.0 had
 > incorporated Unicode by reference, either there would have been some
 > extra "unicode-character apparatus" in the XML 1.0 Recommendation
 > anyway -- but this time turning off parts of the Unicode Standard --
 > or we wouldn't have seen the lean, mean XML processors that people
 > loved producing in the early days of XML.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > 
 > Tony Graham
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  • Re: Remembering the original XML vision
    • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
  • Unicode and XML (was Re: Remembering the original XML vision)
    • From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>

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