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Re: UTF-8+names

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• Subject: Re: UTF-8+names
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:44:05 +0100 (BST)
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• In-reply-to: <p06002008bbbc32627620@[192.168.254.4]>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

In article <p06002008bbbc32627620@[192.168.254.4]> you write:

>It might affect people who are wrapping to a specific line length, 
>especially if they have a longish encoding name.

If you can show a single real document that this applies to, I'll take
it more seriously.

>However, I don't see the benefit of doing it in 1.1 since parsers 
>already have the code to handle line broken XML declarations.

The problem is that you don't know which characters are line breaks
until you've read the version number.

>Making 
>an additional distinction between 1.0 and 1.1 will just make parsers 
>a little harder to write since they'll need to special case this 
>depending on version.

The change was based on implementor feedback, in particular a comment
from me, though I only suggested outlawing the new line end characters.

>In either case, I assume you're planning to go back to last call 
>then? I don't see anything about this in the candidate recommendation.

The CR period is for implementation feedback.  Since it affects no
existing (i.e. 1.0) documents, I can't see any need to go back to
last call.

-- Richard

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