[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: XML Blueberry
- From: Vincent-Olivier Arsenault <vincent@neuro6.com>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:51:05 -0400
At 04:04 PM 6/21/01, you wrote:
>Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>
>
>>It almost feels to me like those tables should be the responsibility of
>>the Unicode folks (or some similarly lucky but separate intermediary
>>with time on its hands) to maintain, and that some means of
>>incorporating them by reference might have avoided this entire
>>discussion.
>
>
>In essence they are: Unicode sets the character properties, and
>XML has rules saying which types of characters can be used for what,
>and what the exceptions are.
Well mmm, not enough I'd say : why is there a need for so many character
classes and DERIVATION rules (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#CharClasses)?
v