• To: "'Richard Tobin'" <richard@c...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:57:31 -0000
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• In-reply-to: <200112170035.AAA20558@m...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> XPath and probably some other languages rely on digits not being
> name starts for their tokenizing.  Compare a[b] and a[1].
>
> I think it would be a mistake to change the name-start status of any
> of the standard ASCII characters.
>
I have been looking forward to the day when we could break away from the ASCII legacy and start using characters such as

 Â§, ¬, Ã?, ÷, â??, and â?©

as operators in our programming languages (and hopefully, as characters in our email). I hope XML 1.1 will not kill these hopes.

Mike Kay

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