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Re: [Ltru] Re: Remove extlang from ABNF?

"Ira McDonald" <blueroofmusic@gmail.com> Tue, 04 December 2007 18:22 UTC

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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:22:47 -0500
From: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Re: Remove extlang from ABNF?
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Hi,

My two cents - Stephane is dead right - as an outsider who is a protocol
guy, I'm appalled that his argument isn't obvious to this list.

Cheers,
- Ira

On Dec 4, 2007 11:45 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:38:07PM +0100,
>  Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote
>  a message of 8 lines which said:
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> > > 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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