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On 22/09/2010 18:43, Pete Cordell wrote: > Original Message From: "David Carlisle" > >> It is well formed. (and parsed as such by any xml parser I've tried). > > But as said earlier, what does "(and parsed as such by any xml parser > I've tried)." prove! only that maintainers of the parsers did not read that paragraph the way you did (but that could be wrong:-) > > At the end of the day though, I would say the pragmatic BCP approach is > to not use names starting with xml other than those defined by W3C, and > then only as intended. But, as Michael Kay said, the W3C does not make > laws, so you're free to do what you want. > Or (in this case) you may be forced (or at least coerced) to to what microsoft want, much of their "xml islands" stuff revolves around an element that goes by the name <xml> which is pretty much directly against the spirit of the text in question, but sadly not I would say a non conformance to the letter of the spec. David
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