Michael Day wrote: > Hi Elliotte, > >> Not everyone, While I like more scripts in name characters, I for one >> don't agree that not explicitly specifying the set of UNICODE >> characters that can be used in names is an improvement. > > In that case, what about releasing a series of errata to expand the set > of UNICODE characters that can be used in names, as new scripts are > added? That would be consistent with the goals of my proposal, which > were to allow parsers to be upgraded incrementally to support new > scripts, without breaking backwards compatibility with XML 1.0. >
I object to releasing errata to change the clear meaning of a spec (not that that hasn't been done before). Upgrades need a new version number. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
