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Re: Use DTDs!

• From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>
• To: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>, Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 02:48:15 -0400

On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 13:03 +1000, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> So i like named characters and Eliot does not like declarations. Both
> could be accomodated by building in the standard iso/w3c public
> entity sets into xml so declarations were needed.

Last time I checked those fell short by a long way of covering all of
Unicode, or even all the symbols.

Tim Bray once had a proposal to allow Unicode names, but, even more
than the ISO names, they favour English speakers, something that makes
me somewhat uncomfortable. Plus they would dramatically increase the
size of a minimal XML parser.

U+004C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
U+0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I
U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A
U+006D LATIN SMALL LETTER M

Liam

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Liam R. E. Quin <liam@w3.org>
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
U+03CB GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKA
(what's the average length of these? What's the longest?)

• References:
  • Re: Use DTDs!
    • From: Ghislain Fourny <g@28.io>
  • Re: Use DTDs!
    • From: ht@markup.co.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
  • Re: Use DTDs!
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: Use DTDs!
    • From: Gareth Oakes <goakes@gpsl.co>
  • Re: Use DTDs!
    • From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>
  • Re: Use DTDs!
    • From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org>
  • Re: Use DTDs!
    • From: Eliot Kimber <ekimber@contrext.com>
  • Re: Use DTDs!
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Re: Use DTDs!
    • From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>