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Re: version numbers and infosets

• To: elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
• Subject: Re: version numbers and infosets
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:18:23 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l..., xml-editor@w...
• In-reply-to: <p04330105b963472c981a@[192.168.254.4]> from "Elliotte Rusty Harold" at Jul 23, 2002 01:51:54 PM

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Note: I do not believe there is *ANY* need for allowing NEL in white 
> space. Any document that uses this can easily be rewritten in an XML 
> 1.0 compliant way with carriage returns and linefeeds. Any competent 
> developer with the slightest concern for interoperability or longterm 
> storage will do this anyway, even if XML 1.1 allows NEL.

That means that on mainframe platforms, XML files are not plaintext files
and vice versa.  As a matter of justice, this is intolerable.

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