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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Jim Tivy<jimt@b...> wrote: > Not a good idea for an open interoperatable data format. If part of the spec is a way to figure out what delimiters are being used in any given instance, then I'd argue the exact opposite. I believe this was the case for SGML (anyone?) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Hunsberger [mailto:peter.hunsberger@g...] > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:31 AM > To: Pete Cordell > Cc: XML Developers List > Subject: Re: XHTML 2 Working Group won't be renewed? > >> From: "Michael Kay" >>> >>> One problem is that the more universal you want to make it, the more >>> contexts it has to be unambiguous in: for example XQuery has problems > with >>> {uri}local because it already uses "{" extensively. >> >> If you get really desperate you could do something Perl-esque where you >> choose your delimiters. > > Didn't SGML allow you to choose your own delimiters (in general)? > > -- > Peter Hunsberger > -- Peter Hunsberger
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