Jon Hanna scripsit: > If this is not the case (I'm not entirely sure this bans what XML does with > spaces) then all we would need is a change so that rather than a de facto > ban on space+combining within names and nmtokens we would have an explicit > ban on the same; then we'd all be happy, except possibly for some sadistic > XML application designer that was planning on use that combination out of > ill-will towards his or her colleagues.
Space in any case is not allowed in a token. There are far worse conformance problems than this anyway, notably the fact that canonical equivalence is not respected in XML names: a start-tag that is decomposed and an end-tag that is composed (or vice versa) will not match. -- The Imperials are decadent, 300 pound John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> free-range chickens (except they have http://www.reutershealth.com teeth, arms instead of wings and http://www.ccil.org/~cowan dinosaurlike tails). --Elyse Grasso

