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Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8+names

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To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8+names
From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:13:46 -0700
Cc: XML Dev <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
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Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

> Could you try to convince me that a new character encoding scheme is
> much better from a real world perspective than a revision of the XML
> specification with new general parsed entities?

Only because such a revision is not politically viable.  The only 
advantage of the +names approach is that it doesn't touch XML.

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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