Re: xml specification implementation

2013-10-10 Thread Michael Glavassevich
Hi Gary, The short answer is no. This blog [1] entry touches on concerns that the XML community has had about the 5th edition. I've yet to see a request from someone that actually needs / wants this. I'm not even sure you can do a release which conforms to JAXP since the other standards it pu

Re: xml specification implementation

2013-10-10 Thread Gary Gregory
Michael, Do you have any plans to release a 2.12 to support the fifth edition then? Curious, Thank you, Gary On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Michael Glavassevich wrote: > Hello, > > You are looking at XML 1.0 fifth edition which changed some of the rules > for allowable characters in XML nam

Re: xml specification implementation

2013-10-10 Thread Michael Glavassevich
Hello, You are looking at XML 1.0 fifth edition which changed some of the rules for allowable characters in XML names. The current version of Xerces-J supports XML 1.0 fourth edition and behaves correctly with respect to the rules for XML names in that edition. Older versions of Xerces-J suppo

Re: xml specification implementation

2013-10-10 Thread Gary Gregory
Manuel, 2.0.2 is old! you should check 2.11. Gary On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Manuel Jimenez wrote: > According to the spec ( > http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#sec-common-syn), xml names > could start with the following: > > ** ** > > NameStartChar > >::= >

xml specification implementation

2013-10-10 Thread Manuel Jimenez
According to the spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#sec-common-syn), xml names could start with the following: NameStartChar ::= ":" | [A-Z] | "_" | [a-z] | [#xC0-#xD6] | [#xD8-#xF6] | [#xF8-#x2FF] | [#x370-#x37D] | [#x37F-#x1FFF] | [#x200C-#x200D] | [#x2070-#x218F] | [