xml-dev - General comments on parsers (was [NEW] AElfred)

[David Megginson <ak117@freenet.carleton.ca>]

Peter Murray-Rust writes:

 > There are 3 possibilities:
 > 	7 chars (AElfred)
 > 	6 chars (<ligature>lfred)
 > 	5 chars (lfred)
 > 
 > I think you need to standardise on ONE! 

Just for clarification, the proper name is "Ælfred" (with an AE
ligature at the start), but that will not come through older mailers;
the ASCII transliteration is "AElfred", but the point of the AE
ligature is that XML is not limited to ASCII (though many people's
e-mail is).  The unimaginative Java class name is
com.microstar.xml.XmlParser, so there's no problem with ligatures
there.

We could type &AElig;lfred, but we'd scare away the Java hackers.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 ak117@freenet.carleton.ca
Microstar Software Ltd.         dmeggins@microstar.com
      http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/

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