Peter Kirk scripsit: > Anyone, please, is it or is it not true that XML forbids, or will forbid > in future versions, combining characters immediately after markup?
XML 1.0 is silent on the subject. The W3C Character Model (which is not official yet) says that "content developers SHOULD avoid composing characters at the beginning of constructs that may be significant, such as at the beginning of an entity that will be included, immediately after a construct that causes inclusion or immediately after markup." XML 1.1 (which is not official yet either) references the Character Model and states which constructs are significant. The technical meaning of "SHOULD" is defined by RFC 2119: "This word [...] means that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course." -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "It's the old, old story. Droid meets droid. Droid becomes chameleon. Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back again. It's a classic tale." --Kryten, _Red Dwarf_
