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Re: UTF-8+names

• To: Alessandro Triglia <sandro@m...>
• Subject: Re: UTF-8+names
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 17:27:15 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Alessandro Triglia scripsit:

> If numeric character references (with the same apparent syntax as XML's
> numeric character references) were introduced, they would hide completely
> XML's numeric character references.  

The few cases where this is important (numeric references to lt, amp, gt,
quot, apos, control characters in XML 1.1) could be special-cased.
But I don't think that handling numeric character references at the
encoding level is worth doing.

-- 
John Cowan  www.ccil.org/~cowan  jcowan@r...  www.reutershealth.com
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cop shows.  When it's explained to them that there are in a different country,
where those rights do not exist, they become outraged.  --Neal Stephenson

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