- From: Amelia A. Lewis <alewis@tibco.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:59:40 -0400
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Cc: pgrosso@arbortext.com, www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:17:38 -0400 John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> wrote: > Amelia A. Lewis scripsit: > > > Discussion of the issue revealed that x#D is included in S as part > > of compatibility with SGML; the discussion included a rather > > grotesque example of hackery that could get this code point to show > > up in a document, bypassing normalization. > > Can you provide the details? See the thread beginning at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-blueberry-comments/2002Oct/0004.html (which raised this issue, I believe). From examination of that thread in the archive, it appears that the example of what one John Cowan referred to as "entity abuse" included solely for "backward compatibility" was communicated outside the archive. I regret that I do not appear to have retained the email illustrating entity abuse intended to get x#D into the stream. > I wouldn't object to adding a motherhood note to the Third Edition > (and a fortiori to XML 1.1). Something of the sort would make me far more comfortable with rejection of this issue. I can understand that it was not felt necessary to add *more* entity abuse (by including the new newlines in the S production), but had the original spec called out the fact that x#D could only appear as a result of sufficient entity abuse, the issue would probably not have been raised. Amy! -- Amelia A. Lewis Architect, TIBCO/Extensibility, Inc. alewis@tibco.com
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