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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 11:35:17 -0500
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• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Wednesday 19 December 2001 02:02 am, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> And that lies at the heart of the matter: if we allow control characters
> and silly name characters, we won't actually increase the number of
> characters that can be reliable sent: we will just make non-ASCII
> characters suspect and unreliable.

Precisely my earlier point. With this, XML makes it easy to blurr the 
byte/character distinction, and would then be suspect as a text markup 
language.

Welcome to HTML 2.0 all over again.

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