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Tony Graham wrote at 17 Feb 2003 16:22:06 +0000:
> Mike Champion wrote at 16 Feb 2003 12:35:44 -0500:
> ...
> > Stupid question: Why couldn't XML incorporate Unicode by reference rather
> > than spending half of the spec defining the "unicode-character apparatus"?
>
> XML 1.0 refers to both ISO/IEC 10646:1993 and Unicode 2.0.
>
> XML 1.0 doesn't favour one over the other, so it doesn't "just
> incorporate Unicode by reference".
>
> XML 1.0 does not conform to the Unicode Standard -- for example,
> normalising characters in markup was optional. If XML 1.0 had
> incorporated Unicode by reference, either there would have been some
> extra "unicode-character apparatus" in the XML 1.0 Recommendation
> anyway -- but this time turning off parts of the Unicode Standard --
> or we wouldn't have seen the lean, mean XML processors that people
> loved producing in the early days of XML.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Tony Graham
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