• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• To: Don Park <donpark@d...>
• Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:50:33 -0400 (EDT)

Don Park scripsit:

> They have tinkered with Chinese-enabled Forth and
> other languages, but they have accepted limitations of C, Java, and Perl
> without any significant complaint.  

Java has approximately the same identifier rules as XML.
C99 allows any character north of ~ in identifiers.
Perl 5.6 AFAIK is still ASCII-only.

> Why is it such an issue in XML names?

Markup != programming.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@c...
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	--Douglas Hofstadter

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