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From: "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>
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> Check out http://tbray.org/tag/utf-8+names.html
Instead of throwing an error for a missing semicolon, why not let that case
fall under section 4. Since the set of pre-defined reference names are
known, you also know the maximum length possible. If you reach length+1
characters, you know it's not a reference and leave it as-is. It also means
that a lone ampersand won't be an error. I suspect the motivation to
require the semicolon is for consistency with XML's same requirements.
However, this disallows some valid UTF-8 from being valid UTF-8+names as
well. While this may be fine if used solely within the context of XML
(which would throw an error as soon as it hit the invalid reference anyhow),
I suspect people will try using this outside of XML as well.
Also, I suspect that using the same format as XML/SGML's references is going
to confuse people. Maybe use a similary format such as #name; or @name;.
This way, at least the two references (UTF-8+name and XML) would not be
confused.
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Seairth Jacobs (seairth@seairth.com)
Looking: http://www.seairth.com/blog/65
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