• To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• Subject: Re: UTF-8+names
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:13:46 -0700
• Cc: XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>
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Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

> Could you try to convince me that a new character encoding scheme is
> much better from a real world perspective than a revision of the XML
> specification with new general parsed entities?

Only because such a revision is not politically viable.  The only 
advantage of the +names approach is that it doesn't touch XML.

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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