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Joern Clausen wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I think Simon St.Laurent's reply was the most useful up to now.
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:36:25PM +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> > o know whether the current MathML/HTML4 sets are sufficient; ie
> > are we going to need to reversion this in couple of years to cater
> > for ogham?
>
> Of course they are not sufficient. They cover only a fragment
> of characters defined by Unicode.
>
> One possibility might be to use the names from the Unicode
> code charts, like &hebrew-letter-yod; or &lao-letter-do;.
> Think of them as ad-hoc entities, if you like.
>
> Now, if entities only were allowed to have namespaces
> assigned to them, then you could say
>
> <foo xmlns:unc="some-uri-for-unicode">&unc:hebrew-letter-yod;</foo>
>
> and they wouldn't collide with your own entities, as someone
> already pointed out.
I think this comes very close to what I said, that the problem should be
solved at the XML level, not at the encoding level. Your proposal would
work with encoding="utf-8" and encoding="utf-16". The knowledge of the
names and the ability to resolve them into characters would be attributed to
the XML processor rather than to a codec.
Alessandro
> And XML parser could clearly state if
> they support that namespace or not. Is there some rationale
> why only elements and attributes have namespaces?
>
> Of course, this solution won't save you much time for looking
> names up when writing, maybe it helps when reading them in a
> text. But all in all I don't see the point in the original
> draft anyway...
>
> --
> Joern Clausen
> joern@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
> Faculty of Technology
> http://www.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE/~joern/
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