CDATA by any other name... (was The raw and the cooked)

[John Cowan]

Rick Jelliffe wrote:

> (An optimistic view of ISO10646: there are dozens of new Han ideographs
> created every day, apart from other scripts.)

True but irrelevant, since no specifiable character set can hold these.

> I hope that the schema people will look at
> a solution for constraining strings to use certain repertoires of
> characters.

And I hope that they allow no such thing, except perhaps as a fall-out
from some regex or other local syntax mechanism.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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