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At 2:13 PM +0200 9/28/02, Julian Reschke wrote:
>Namespace names allowing characters outside the ASCII character set means
>that this change will break any code that currently relies on the fact that
>namespace names must be valid URI references according to RFC2396. Of course
>code can be changed, but I doubt that the cost of this has been considered
>properly.
>
Namespaces 1.1 will only be available with XML 1.1. XML 1.1 has much
more serious (and much more breaking) changes than this. Existing XML
1.0 parsers will generally not be able to read XML 1.1 documents.
Among other things, the definition of name characters and white space
is likely to change.
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