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[Ltru] Re: Remove extlang from ABNF?

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 04 December 2007 16:45 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:38:07PM +0100,
 Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote 
 a message of 8 lines which said:

> > Once well-formed, a tag should always be well-formed.
> 
> There are no extlang tags yet, well-formed or otherwise.

Are you sure? Did you read every XML document published to check the
language tag they indicate? It is *probably* true but I find
nevertheless annoying that we change the syntax in a way that will
make well-formed tags illegal. It will be difficult to claim that we
place stability over everything after that.





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