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Bill de h?ra scripsit:
> I'd love to know what SOAP-oriented folks think about it.
I should think they'd think it's totally useless, just like the original
proposal for infoset-level names. Machine-generated XML would have no
use for UTF-8+names.
> It also potentially hurts interop - there are costs and benefits to
> be weighed up.
Flexibility and interoperability are always opposed. If we all had
just one kind of computer and just one set of software, we'd all
have perfect interoperability. (Hmm.)
> see the encoding name changed to "UTF-8+entities", the current
> name is rather vague.
The whole point of "names" is that they are not entities. In fact,
we go to some lengths to make sure they can be used with entities
without interfering with them.
> see examples of escaped whitespace.
If you mean strictly XML whitespace, I think the last thing we want
is to have names like "space", "cr", "lf", or "tab". These would make
hideous uglifications like
<foo&space;bar="baz"&space;/>
possible, and who wants that?
> know whether <wóoops/> is a legal element name in this
> proposal.
Yes. To XML, it's an empty-tag whose name contains six characters,
all of them legal in names.
> hear a rationale, other than use outside XML, for choosing a new
> encoding to solve this problem, ie why not xml:entities="yes" or
> some other approach?
Because there are already zillions of encodings, and what's one more?
But getting XML changed in any particular cannot be done without
immense pain, as no one knows better than I.
> 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?
A very good question. My sense is that they are not sufficient, but
that Ogham isn't going to be an issue either.
> like elharo and Alessandro, I'm unconvinced about treatment of
> &, specifically, that it isn't being overloaded in some
> clever/sneaky way. Indeed, I'll claim that & /is/ being overloaded
> in some clever/sneaky until the next draft shows me otherwise.
What *concrete* action would it take to convince you? Proving a negative
(that there is nothing underhanded here) is notoriously difficult to
impossible: the unconvincee can always retort "But there still *could*
be something wrong!"
--
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