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John Cowan wrote: >It's easier to make happen. As editor and original chief pusher of >XML 1.1, I know what I'm talking about. > That seems a little whiffy, John. As probably a bane of your life at that time, I note that: * XML 1.1 did not fix a problem that a significant number of existing current users had, * XML 1.1 drafts involved altering qualities of XML that some people considered significant, and * at least at one stage the XML WG tried to dismiss discussion of the ramifactions of drafts by a bureaucratic slight-of-hand (i.e. that it wouldn't discuss individual characters because that was now Unicode' business). The idea of specifying fallback behaviour for references to undeclared entities with standard names * fixes a current problem that a significant number of users have, * does not alter XML's robustness but makes it less fragile. * And the XML WG is very cooperative. Furthermore, I have always felt that a version-up of XML would not thrive unless it had enough bang-per-buck. A reform to undeclared entity defaulting plus the 1.1 changes are more likely to be over the tipping point that just 1.1 alone. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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