RE: Well-formed Blueberry

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 11:51 PM +0900 7/13/01, Joel Rees wrote:


>How do you propose to do this without burdening parsers with a huge wall
>table?
>

This doesn't require any tables or divisions that aren't required already. A parser that wants to handle XML 1.0 documents (and I certainly hope we aren't suggesting eliminating XML 1.0 documents) needs to know the difference between a 1.0 character and a Blueberry character. A Blueberry parser has to be able to read a document that does not declare itself to be a Blueberry document and report that the document is malformed because the element names are in Cherokee.  A smarter parser would suggest that the fix is to add a Blueberry declaration (whatever that looks like), but it at least needs to be able to make the diagnosis. 

>And why? Is the Blueberry proposal liable to make a directional branch in
>the development of XML that you think is undesirable, or perhaps too early?
>

Well yes, but that wasn't my point in *this* thread. :-) Blueberry documents will cause problems when passed to existing pre-Blueberry software. To minimize this, we need to limit Blueberry to those cases only where someone actually needs (Oops, there's that word again :-) ) Blueberry, as opposed to cases where they just think its cool or somehow better to be using the latest and greatest. 
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