Request for review/feedback on XML 1.0 Fifth Edition

Dear XML Protocol WG,

On 6 February 2008, W3C published Extensible Markup Language=20
(XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition) as a Proposed Edited Recommendation [1].
This version of the XML 1.0 specification contains one major change,
to the definition of names, bringing one major benefit of XML 1.1=20
into XML 1.0.  The background to this change is available online [2].
The XML Test Suite [3] has been updated to include a number of tests
of the proposed change.

The decision on whether or not to actually adopt this proposal=20
will be made by the W3C Director, Tim Berners-Lee, on the basis=20
of feedback from W3C members and the wider XML community.  Since=20
the work of your Working Group depends on XML, we are particularly=20
interested in your input on this question.  Send your feedback to

  [email protected]

a publicly archived [4] list.  Please begin the subject line of=20
your feedback with "[XML 1.0 5e]" and send separate messages for=20
each substantive comment (editorial comments may be grouped in=20
a single message).

Thank you

Paul Grosso and Norman Walsh for the W3C XML Core Working Group

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PER-xml-20080205/
[2] http://www.w3.org/XML/2008/02/xml10_5th_edition_background.html
[3] http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/
[4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-editor/