From ccc20b070929c3a0dc96cda45332d6826d242352 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kwaclaw <kwaclaw>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:21:25 +0000
Subject: Corrected recommended namespace separators - reported in bug
 #1742315.

---
 doc/reference.html | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/reference.html b/doc/reference.html
index a315870..c5f6c2c 100644
--- a/doc/reference.html
+++ b/doc/reference.html
@@ -917,12 +917,15 @@ XML_ParserCreateNS(const XML_Char *encoding,
 Constructs a new parser that has namespace processing in effect. Namespace
 expanded element names and attribute names are returned as a concatenation
 of the namespace URI, <em>sep</em>, and the local part of the name. This
-means that you should pick a character for <em>sep</em> that can't be
-part of a legal URI. There is a special case when <em>sep</em> is the null
-character <code>'\0'</code>: the namespace URI and the local part will be
-concatenated without any separator - this is intended to support RDF processors.
-It is a programming error to use the null separator with 
-<a href= "#XML_SetReturnNSTriplet">namespace triplets</a>.</div>
+means that you should pick a character for <em>sep</em> that can't be part
+of an URI. Since Expat does not check namespace URIs for conformance, the
+only safe choice for a namespace separator is a character that is illegal
+in XML. For instance, <code>'\xFF'</code> is not legal in UTF-8, and
+<code>'\xFFFF'</code> is not legal in UTF-16. There is a special case when
+<em>sep</em> is the null character <code>'\0'</code>: the namespace URI and
+the local part will be concatenated without any separator - this is intended
+to support RDF processors. It is a programming error to use the null separator
+with <a href= "#XML_SetReturnNSTriplet">namespace triplets</a>.</div>
 
 <pre class="fcndec" id="XML_ParserCreate_MM">
 XML_Parser XMLCALL
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