Re: [office] 2.2.1 OpenDocument Document

["Steven Pemberton" <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>]

On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:53:38 +0100, <robert_weir@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> <office@lists.oasis-open.org> wrote on 12/19/2011 03:48:23 PM:
>
> > From: André Rebentisch <andre.rebentisch@arsaperta.com>
> > To: office@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Date: 12/19/2011 03:51 PM
> > Subject: [office] 2.2.1 OpenDocument Document
> > Sent by: <office@lists.oasis-open.org>
> >
> > XML 1.0 is made available as 5th edition 2008
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/
> >
> > The specification links XML 1.0 4th edition 2006 in section 2.2.1.
>
> 5th Edition of XML 1.0 made some changes related to permitted characters,
> changes that were not backwards compatible with earlier versions.  The
> result is many XML standards still refer to the 4th edition.
>
> You can read some background on the issue here:
> http://blog.jclark.com/2008/10/xml-10-5th-edition.html
>
> Moving to XML 1.1 would bring similar concerns.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that adopting 5th edition would not  
invalidate old documents, only introduce the possibility that new  
documents would not be readable by old software. On the other hand, since  
it is software that is producing the new documents, is it not possible to  
legislate that they not use the new characters if they wish the documents  
to be readable by old software?

Steven

> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
> > Kind regards,
> > André Rebentisch
> >
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