Feeler for SML (Simple Markup Language)

[Jelks Cabaniss]

Clark Evans wrote:

> > o UTF-8 encoding only
>
> I'm kinda ingnorant... would it still be
> possible to handle oriental character sets
> with UTF-8 ?

Yes.  ASCII characters in UTF-8 only take up 1 byte, but if you're using
oriental character sets, one *character* can take up several bytes.  I forget
the max number and the algorhythm used, but I bet some other folks here would
know.  The only problem is when an *entire* oriental character set document is
in UTF-8, then it's liable to be bigger than one encoded in UTF-16, where you
know that every character will take up two bytes, no more, no less.

> > o No non-character entity references
> > o No predefined character entities (I am iffy on this one)
>
> Sure.

How are you going to handle < and & in PCDATA, unless you declare them
explicitly (which is hard to do when you've done away with the DOCTYPE
declaration)  ...


/Jelks


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