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Re: XML Blueberry



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)?

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