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Michael Champion wrote: > OK, I'll bite and expose my lack of attention to the details -- why are > smart quotes illegal in XML? (Or is it that the encoding is They aren't. > mis-specified?) Was this proposed to be fixed in XML 1.1? Does anyone It was mis-specified (actually it wasn't specified at all, and as it wasn't UTF-8 it should have been). > outside the RSS/Atom world complain about this? Any XML parser MUST reject it, otherwise it doesn't deserve the name. > ... I'll not comment on the rest because it seems to say that because of recent advances, we don't need a well-defined markup syntax. Somehow I doub this is true :-) Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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