Re: [xml-dev] Unicode and XML (was Re: [xml-dev] Remembering the original XML vision)

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Re: [xml-dev] Unicode and XML (was Re: [xml-dev] Remembering the original XML vision)
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 10:58 am, Tony Graham wrote:
>  >  > There are a fair number of characters that really don't make much
>  >  > sense as markup... and XML 1.0 is pretty conservative, but generally
>  >  > sensible. At the time, there were no good guidelines from the Unicode
>  >  > consortium on what should/should not be allowed, which is something
>  >  > they have addressed recently.
>  >
>  > The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0, was published in 1996.  Section
>  > 5.14, Identifiers, contains guidelines for "the definition of
>  > identifier syntax."

That was considered as part of the work on XML 1.0, but wasn't sufficient by 
itself.