The World Wide Web
Consortium and the Unicode
Consortium have released a joint draft called
"Unicode
in XML and Other Markup
Languages". The document addresses the problem
created by certain characters: While
there may be valid reasons to support these
characters and their specifications in plain text,
their use in
marked-up text can conflict with the rules of the
markup language.
Such
characters include for example the line and
paragraph separators, which obviously have their
equivalent in markup languages, ie.
br
and p
in
HTML.
In related news, John Cowan announced
his
ongoing independent development of a corrigendum
to XML 1.0 intended to bring it into sync with
Unicode
3.0.