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Felix Sasaki wrote: > Robin Berjon wrote: >> On Feb 16, 2008, at 04:00, Elliotte Harold wrote: >>> (I still have yet to meet one single actual user who needs XML 1.1.) > > Please read http://rishida.net/blog/?p=135 > That's theoretical. Note he doesn't say he actually needs any of these characters himself, nor does he say he's met any users who do. I reiterate: I have yet to hear from or of one single person who wants a character added in XML 1.1. Probably there is someone out there somewhere, or may one day be, but the fact that there isn't even one yet (and I've looked) indicates that the need for this is miniscule. It's just not worht the cost of the change. Now, as I've said before, if we could eliinate the actively bad ideas from XML 1.1 like allowing undefined characters in names and NEL, and if we could offer other benefits to real, non-theoretical users to offset the costs of a transition, then we might as well go ahead and add the new name characters through Unicode 5 in a putative XML 2.0. However, absent some other compelling benefit, the costs are just way too high. And there's certainly no excuse for breaking the W3C process to enable these characters few if any individuals actually want or need. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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