General comments on parsers (was [NEW] AElfred)

David Megginson (ak117@freenet.carleton.ca)
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:59:12 -0500

Peter Murray-Rust writes:

> There are 3 possibilities:
> =097 chars (AElfred)
> =096 chars (<ligature>lfred)
> =095 chars (lfred)
>=20
> I think you need to standardise on ONE!=20

Just for clarification, the proper name is "=C6lfred" (with an AE
ligature at the start), but that will not come through older mailers;
the ASCII transliteration is "AElfred", but the point of the AE
ligature is that XML is not limited to ASCII (though many people's
e-mail is). The unimaginative Java class name is
com.microstar.xml.XmlParser, so there's no problem with ligatures
there.

We could type &AElig;lfred, but we'd scare away the Java hackers.

All the best,

David

--=20
David Megginson ak117@freenet.carleton.ca
Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@microstar.com
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