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   Re: [xml-dev] Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

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Tim Bray wrote:
> You could even revise the syntax rules of XML 1.0 slightly to allow 
> spaces in entity names &#LOWERCASE PHI; - no spaces or underscores!

Ugh! Are spaces in in entity names normalized by the parser?
       <foo>&#LOWERCASE
         PHI;
       </foo>
(Note indentation, just for fun)
This will cause endless discussions whether this impairs performance
too much, increases complexity unduly and so on.
OTOH, if you allow only exactly one U+0020, then unsuspecting
user *will* be trapped by automatic line wrapping.

Let's stick with the rules we have.

J.Pietschmann





 

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