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Michael Champion wrote:
> OK, I'll bite and expose my lack of attention to the details -- why are
> smart quotes illegal in XML? (Or is it that the encoding is
They aren't.
> mis-specified?) Was this proposed to be fixed in XML 1.1? Does anyone
It was mis-specified (actually it wasn't specified at all, and as it
wasn't UTF-8 it should have been).
> outside the RSS/Atom world complain about this?
Any XML parser MUST reject it, otherwise it doesn't deserve the name.
> ...
I'll not comment on the rest because it seems to say that because of
recent advances, we don't need a well-defined markup syntax. Somehow I
doub this is true :-)
Julian
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