Re: [xml-dev] Was there a technical issue for the demise of XML 1.1?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2018-10-09 12:54 +0100, Rhodri James wrote:
> On 08/10/18 23:56, John Cowan wrote:
> > It was a collection of fixes to XML 1.0 none of which was in itself
> > sufficiently compelling to justify a new and incompatible version.  The
> > feature I considered the most important, ditching Unicode 2.0 in favor of
> > an evolving set of characters for element and attribute names (as well as
> > the values of non-CDATA attributes), was incorporated into the 5th Edition
> > of XML 1.0.
> That's actually problematic all by itself.  Parsers have no way of 
> telling from the data they've been presented which characters are valid.
True, but there is the character repertoire standard ISO/IEC 19757-7 
CREPDL (a sibling to 19757-3 Schematron and 19757-2 RELAX-NG) where 
you can declare and validate the characters that are allowed to be in 
an XML document.

I believe there are free implementations of this specification 
available, though I've never gone looking myself.

I hope this is helpful.

. . . . . . Ken


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