• To: "'Rick Jelliffe'" <ricko@a...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XML 1.1 and Unicode normalization
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:48:14 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <02fd01c32d8c$f817b340$4bc8a8c0@A...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> It is the basic law of interpreting specifications that when 
> faced with a silly interpretation and a sensible one, you 
> pick the sensible one: "Don't panic, Private Godfrey!"  The 
> idea that Charmod bans anyone from providing 
> text-processing software to help fix problems is so silly it 
> is seems obstinate.

I agree that the literal reading of the spec is clearly absurd. My
problem is that I haven't been able to come up with any possible
interpretation of the words in the spec that actually makes sense.

Michael Kay

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