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• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@e...>
• Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:04:15 -0500

Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:


> The main reason for leaving it out of XML is that it causes authoring
> problems: it fails the test of least surprise as NEL above.

Least surprising to whom?

The fact that some systems expect to use bare CR and bare LF is
probably very surprising to parochial Windows programmers, which
render them as blocks.  Should they be disallowed?

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