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Re: [xml-dev] more fixed lists (was UTF-8+names)

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To: Alessandro Triglia <sandro@mclink.it>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] more fixed lists (was UTF-8+names)
From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:46:17 -0700
Cc: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@simonstl.com>,'XML Dev' <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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Alessandro Triglia wrote:

>>Sections 6 and 7 appear effectively to create 
>>yet-another-fixed-list for processors to incorporate into 
>>their code, with no provision for future change.
> 
> I don't see how the lists can be changed in the future, since we are talking
> about an encoding.  Changing the lists would mean that the encoding becomes
> a different encoding, and must have a different name

Agreed. -Tim

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