Re: [relax-ng] What about XML 1.1?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ "MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)" <EB2M-MRT@asahi-net.or.jp> was heard to say:
| On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:35:34 -0400
| Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
|
|> Who said that the erratum would? The erratum simply has to read along
|> these lines:
|> 
|>   All implementations must accept XML 1.0 characters. Implementations may
|>   choose to accept XML 1.1 documents, in which case the Name production must
|>   match xxx and etc. (enumerating the rules for 1.1 documents).
|
| SC34 WG1 said that this is too big as an erratum, since it may break 
| existing conformant implementations.  Note that ISO is different from W3C.

I will quietly accept the SC34 WG1 decision, but I do not understand
how an erratum along the lines I suggested could break any existing
conformant implementation.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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