...Philippe, you have now stated this (several times). But just a day earlier you yourself stated that the rule forbidding combining marks at the start of a string would never be relaxed because it is fundamental to the XML containment model. You don't usually contradict yourself quite so obviously.
Peter Kirk writes:
Agreed. But now we are told that the latter is illegal XML because a combining mark is not permitted (by XML, not by Unicode) after <span>.
It is not forbidden by XML. It's just that handling a XML file (which is not
plain-text) as if it was a Unicode plain-text when performing normalization
of the file may produce unexpected composition of characters which are part
of the XML syntax.
...
Anyone, please, is it or is it not true that XML forbids, or will forbid in future versions, combining characters immediately after markup?
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