Michael Kay wrote:
>> Growing but not infinite. There's a hard limit of a few more
>> than a million spaces for characters in Unicode.
>
> There was a hard limit of 127 characters in ASCII. That didn't stop anyone.
> They might have to rename it Multicode, but it will still happen.
>
Not in our lifetime or XML's, possibly not in humanity's. It took
humanity thousands of years to invent the ~100,000 characters in Unicode
today. It will take at least thousands more to invent the next 900,000.
I strongly suspect that by the time the Unicode million-character limit
becomes a real issue (if it ever does) XML will be a quaint legacy
technology at best. I would not be at all surprised if by that point in
history, markup as such has been thoroughly replaced by natural
language, and I would be no more surprised if we're not using Turing
machines at all.
--
Elliotte
