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RE: version numbers and infosets

• To: "'John Cowan'" <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: RE: version numbers and infosets
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:15:47 +0100
• Cc: "'Rick Jelliffe'" <ricko@a...>,<www-xml-blueberry-comments@w...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <200207261546.LAA25650@m...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> > You could do it without changing the definition of 
> well-formedness by 
> > saying that the set of characters considered to be whitespace, and 
> > normalized as such, is a property of the encoding.
> 
> Fine and dandy for EBCDIC, but not so good for Latin-1 as 
> used on mainframes, where 0x85 = NEL.

Then you use encoding="iso-8859-1+NEL".

Most parsers will say they don't handle this, which is fine, others will
accept it, which is also fine.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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