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Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft

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• Subject: Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:47:54 -0500
• In-reply-to: <3C20D3E2.8080302@d...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
• References: <NDBBKGBEKKCNMDLMKFOIEEGKDJAA.theriot@p...> <3C20D3E2.8080302@d...>

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 12:52 pm, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> > I think of XML not as a textual markup language, but rather as a layer
> > over which markup languages can be defined.  Why is it the job of XML to
> > prevent characters that are not appropriate for some classes of markup
> > languages?
>
> IMO, it's not a matter of "preventing characters that are not appropriate
>
> for some classes of markup languages", it's a matter of using the abstract
>
> notion of characters defined by Unicode instead of using their physical
> representation (bytes).

This is right. If you take the REC as-is, there can be no advantage to 
including control characters etc. vis-a-vis the serialization of data. 

It feels like 1994.... I'm getting flashbacks.

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    • From: "J C Theriot" <theriot@p...>
  • Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
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