On 6/15/07, Daniel Veillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:56:30PM -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 10:19 +0200, Oliver Meyer wrote: > > [...] > > > So, the short answer is "No, libxml is not going to support xml version > > > 1.1". > > > > I think this is sad. I agree that  is a silliness that we could > > do without -- it was an unhappy compromise, and at the same time lthe > > literal C1 controls (equally meaningless) were banned, which actually > > helps catch a whole bunch of errors. > > > > It's rare that a change to a spec makes everyone happy. I'm not > > sure we (W3C) made _anyone_ happy with XML 1.1, unfortunately. > > > > The worst is requiring XML 1.0 processors to reject XML 1.1 > > documents, I think that was a big mistake. But I'd still > > like to see libxml support XML 1.1. > > I don't think adding support for 1.1 would be so drastic as requiring > a fork as Michael suggests. But I don't think the ratio of advantages > vs. disadvantages for supporting it is in its favor. It does fragment > the set of tools and users. The technical merits are very limited > (i.e. better UNICODE support) and all I expect is people to actually > use it only for polluting the XML processing chain with uncleaned data > from databases. I think one of the main advantage of XML taking over the > industry has been to force people to understand better what a character > is, what a string means (or not). Opening the gate with just a blind > escaping get us back 10 years backward for no good reason. There is > very little to gain, and an awful lot to loose, so I'm not in favor. > One may thing it's arrogance to say I know better, but considering > how many time I made mistake myself in that area, and how often I need > to get people to learn about this stuff, I guess it's just a matter > of evidence one can collect by browsing the archives of this list.
Better Unicode support is definitely not a minor thing. Being a C++ developer, I fully support languages that give programmers the full power to shoot their foot off if it means giving more benefits to _good_ programmers. Because bad programmers will always be bad programmers, and they'll always find a way to misuse things. (hint: they already do misuse XML) You need a little more faith in the right people. :) > Daniel _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
