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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:00:45AM +1100, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > Ten years ago, or five years ago, or last year, the W3C Core WG should > have said: > * An XML processor should not attempt to process a document with a > higher major version number but report an error. > * An XML processor should attempt to process a document with a higher > version minor version than the XML processor was designed for; In such a > case, well-formedness error reports should note that the error may be > due to changes in the minor XML version (parsers should note which minor > version they are using when reporting that a document is well-formed.) 10 years ago that's more or less what was said; 5 years ago (I think, I forget exactly) the decision was reversed in a mistake that's one of the biggest reasons that XML 1.1 failed. > 2) A coarse-grain sieve for fatal reportable name character errors > * Strict and detailed rules for Unicode < U+0100 > * For U+0100 to U+FFFF include or exclude characters based on > allowing or disallowing blocks (7bit ranges) which allows very efficient > name checking with a 512 entry table and a mask. (This is perhaps more > coarse-grain than even the 5th Edition!) > * For characters not in the BMP (or surrogates) either allow or > disallow indiscriminately all in names that's close to what 5th edition proposes. > > 3) A fine-grain sieve for non-fatal optionally-reportable name > character errors: > These are the detailed rules. If it's not fatal and you don't have to report it, it's not an error. > 4) Deprecate C1 controls I pushed hard for this in XML 1.1 and it's one of the reasons that XML 1.1 failed. It meant that there were XML 1.0 documents that were not well-formed XML 1.1 docuemnts, and for some people that's a killer. Or it was presented to me as a show-stopper at least. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ * http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
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