From: "Tim Bray" <>
> Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>
> > Why should a user have to distinguish between "what elements can I use?"
> > and "what standard entities can I use?".
>
> Wrong question I think. In XML you can use *all* the characters
> provided by Unicode; the issue here is how to give them mnemonics. -Tim
At least Tim is consistent: he doesn't have much truck with schemas, so his answer
to that first would likely be "any element in any namespace" and his answer to the
second is "any entity from Unicode" :-)
So that gives four positions:
* dump entities
* support the standard entities (with default or typical or standard or unified mappings)
* give names to every Unicode character
* provide a better declaration mechanism (that may support PUA characters too.)
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
