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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: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:39:18 +1100
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 From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>
 
> Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> 
> > If you don't do this,  your binary data *cannot* be reliably transferred, 
> > especially in the face of transcoding.
> 
> I agree that it is inappropriate to embed binary (octet) data into
> XML documents.  In practice, forbidding #&0; would achieve that
> purpose.

What about ^D and ^Z?? These have been end-of-file markers for
text files in various operating systems.   What about ^S and ^Q, used
for flow control in serial comms. What about backspace: what does
that mean in markup, and how should it be displayed? 
 
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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