Re: Format of the tables (U+xxxx, UTF-8, etc) Was: Comparison of hoffman-idn-reg and jseng-idn-admin

[Martin Duerst <duerst@xxxxxx>]

Hello Stephane,

Thanks for making the subject more explicit.

At 09:35 03/04/03 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:00:31PM -0500,
>  Martin Duerst <duerst@xxxxxx> wrote
>  a message of 16 lines which said:
>
> > >4. Better syntax for the table. Don't you agree that a U+ABCDU+BCDAU+CDAB
> > >syntax is unreadable? Why can't one use a space?
> >
> > What about using Unicode (UTF-8) directly?
> > What about defining an XML format for the tables?
> > This would allow to publish tables in ASCII-only contexts
> > but also easily view them in a browser with a simple stylesheet.
>
> Good idea but there is already a solution to do so. I suggest that
> Paul rewrites his draft according to RFC 2629, which is widely
> implemented and already has stylesheets.

RFC 2629 is an XML solution for writing RFCs and Internet Drafts.
It is not an XML-based format for the mapping/blocking tables.
Also, RFC 2629 has virtually no support for characters outside
US-ASCII (some such support was discussed, but hasn't been
implemented yet).

An xml-based format for the mapping/blocking tables is something
completely different.

Regards,    Martin.