>>> Robert Herriot <Robert.Herriot at Eng.Sun.COM> 05/20 1:37 PM >>>
> Did we agree to one or two bytes for the length of attribute names? I
> thought two, just in case we ever use Unicode rather than UTF-8 to
> encode attribute names. We wouldn't want the attributes to then be
> limited to 127 characters.
I thought all lengths would be 2 or 4 bytes, never just 1. I thought we
limited attribute names to be the same as keywords now: US ASCII characters
(a-zA-Z), digits (0-9), hyphen (-) and underscore (_). We all know the
consequences of not being able to internationalize these attribute names,
but why are you suggesting maybe someday worrying about UTF-8 for attribute
names?
Scott