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Re: [Ltru] Re: W3C tag policy disclaimers and IETF RFCs



I agree. A minor editorial fix would be to correct 'letter' to 'character'
in those cases.

‎Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.net>
To: "LTRU Working Group" <ltru at ietf.org>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 21:19
Subject: [Ltru] Re: W3C tag policy disclaimers and IETF RFCs


> Frank Ellermann <nobody at xyzzy dot claranet dot de> wrote:
>
> > Fair enough, 3066bis doesn't allow a digit as singleton
>
> Yes it does:
>
> singleton     = %x41-57 / %x59-5A / %x61-77 / %x79-7A / DIGIT
>               ; "a"-"w" / "y"-"z" / "A"-"W" / "Y"-"Z" / "0"-"9"
>               ; Single letters: x/X is reserved for private use
>
> The text in Section 3.6 continually refers to "single-letter subtags,"
> left over from the days before the ABNF was expanded to allow digits (I
> forget when this was).  Judging from all the attention this ABNF has
> gotten, I'd say the correct move is to trust the ABNF over the prose.
>
> --
> Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California
> http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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