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Re: XML 1.1 and Unicode normalization

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• Subject: Re: XML 1.1 and Unicode normalization
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:17:25 -0400
• In-reply-to: <20030604112718.GG21985@c...>

James Anderson wrote:
>while the referenced specification requires that all "producers of
>strings" ensure (not just check) that they are normalized, led this
>implementer to put the proposals back, to wait for later versions.

John Cowan replies (without quoted context about waiting):
>As for waiting, it's now or never as far as XML 1.1 is concerned.

John, could you clarify what this "now or never" is about?  

While I support what XML 1.1 is trying to do, I have a really hard time
seeing anything "now or never" about it.  If there's no great rush to
implement, I'm not sure why there's a great rush to standardize.  James'
experience hardly seems unusual.






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