• From: Ronald Bourret <rbourret@i...>
• To: "'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:13:53 +0100

John Cowan wrote:

> Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>
> > I hope that the schema people will look at
> > a solution for constraining strings to use certain repertoires of
> > characters.
> 
> And I hope that they allow no such thing, except perhaps as a fall-out
> from some regex or other local syntax mechanism.

Why not?  This would be very useful for constraining what can be put into a database, many (most?) of which do not support Unicode.

-- Ron Bourret

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