Peter Kirk writes: > 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.
I don't know how you interpreted what I may have said a few days before. I have certainly not said that XML forbids combining marks at the start of XML, just that W3C does not _recommand_ it as well as any other defective combining sequences, as they are known to cause problems (for example when it's difficult to track the effective text file type) That's the same for NFC: it's just a recommandation, not a requirement, and for XML there are no such "canonical equivalents", just distinct strings. It's up to the application using the _parsed_ XML document tree to do, if needed, the normalization steps. But this should occur only _after_ the document has been parsed and possibly validated according to its schema. Generally, noramlization of strings will only occur in the very last step just before output the result (for example for font rendering), but even at this step, the font may provide information which may require glyph processing or character substitutions that is not well performed with just a normalized NFC form. So in fact, the XML application can/should perform its own necessary normalizations only at steps where it has a benefit, but not at the file stream level as the XML stream itself is not plain text. __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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