Simon St.Laurent wrote:

>  
>  I think it was David Megginson who suggested that XML should get smaller
>  with each iteration.  I think there's hope for that eventually, but it
>  isn't the trend now.  Tim Bray's skunkworks proposal
>  (http://www.textuality.com/xml/xmlSW.html) offers some hope, but I'm not
>  sure it would so good after a few committees.
>   
Nice link! Print and bind a few dozen copies and I'll give it out to everyone I work with...


One nitpick - although xml-dev has taught me that ASCII is by definition 
7-bit, it might be safer for those strangely unwarped people who do not 
frequent this list if 
http://www.textuality.com/xml/xmlSW.html#charencoding used some phrase 
like "Note that since the seven bit encoding known as ASCII is a subset 
of UTF-8, ordinary ASCII XML documents do not strictly need an encoding 
declaration."

Francis.



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