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• Subject: Re: UTF-8+names
• From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>
• Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:01:05 +0100
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John Cowan wrote,
> I think the last thing we want is to have names like "space", "cr",
> "lf", or "tab".  These would make hideous uglifications like
>
> 	<foo&space;bar="baz"&space;/>
>
> possible, and who wants that?

Hmm ... but you _do_ allow monstrosities like this,

  <?xml encoding&=;"UTF-8+names"?>

How would that get along with Appendix F style encoding detection?

Cheers,


Miles

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