RE: [xml-dev] version numbers and infosets

From
Michael Kay <>
To
'John Cowan' <>, 'Rick Jelliffe' <>
Date
2002-07-26T15:30:48Z
ID
<000201c234b9$6acc1930$6401a8c0@pcukmka>
Thread
RE: [xml-dev] version numbers and infosets
> 
> > Why not try that minimal solution first, and see if it works?
> > 
> > (And why not do it as a corrigendum rather than 1.1)
> 
> I keep telling you why.  Because it changes the definition of 
> well-formedness. A document like "<foo<NEL>bar=baz> is not WF 
> XML 1.0, but it is WF XML 1.1.
> 
You could do it without changing the definition of well-formedness by
saying that the set of characters considered to be whitespace, and
normalized as such, is a property of the encoding.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: 
work: