At 11:00 PM +0000 3/8/00, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> 
> I chose leading "." precisely _because_ it violates 1.0.  That means
> if my proposed change is introduced in 1.1, it does not change the
> interpretation of any existing well-formed XML.

One of the strengths of XML is that to date it's been both forwards 
and backwards compatible. I'd really hate to break that without a 
very good reason, and I don't think this qualifies.


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