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Re: version numbers and infosets

• To: davidc@n... (David Carlisle)
• Subject: Re: version numbers and infosets
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:33:11 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r..., elharo@m..., xml-dev@l..., xml-editor@w...
• In-reply-to: <200207240759.IAA26774@p...> from "David Carlisle" at Jul 24, 2002 08:59:33 AM

David Carlisle scripsit:
> 
> 
> > That means that on mainframe platforms, XML files are not plaintext files
> > and vice versa.  As a matter of justice, this is intolerable.
> 
> No, it just means that the files should specify an encoding such that
> the NEL byte in the file maps to #10.

Well, maybe you can do that for EBCDIC files (although it means having
two distinct mappings on the platform), but extended-ASCII files won't
work that way: plaintext expects NEL (#x85).

> Ie the ebcdic - ascii/unicode translation should do as you'd expect if
> doing an ftp transfer in ascii mode.

You can do that if you are transferring files, but not if you are sharing
them via NFS or similar.

-- 
John Cowan                                   jcowan@r...
        "You need a change: try Canada"  "You need a change: try China"
                --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know

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