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Re: Additional syntactic restrictions

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Subject: Re: Additional syntactic restrictions
From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:39:55 -0400
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On Thursday 06 June 2002 02:59 am, James Clark wrote:
> Such restrictions tend to reduce the applicability of general purpose XML
> tools.  

Well, XML use in protocols is not "general purpose", and subsetting 
*required* behaviour, such as supporting only UTF-8, which all processors are 
required to support, can do little except improve interoperability *within 
the domain of the protocol*. Outside the domain of the protocol, so long as 
it is a pure subset, interoperability cannot be affected.

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- RE: charset use of UTF-16 vs. utf-8 - Canonical XML
  - From: Larry Masinter
- Additional syntactic restrictions
  - From: James Clark

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