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Re: version numbers and infosets

• To: michael.h.kay@n...
• Subject: Re: version numbers and infosets
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:33:21 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r... ('John Cowan'), ricko@a... ('Rick Jelliffe'), www-xml-blueberry-comments@w..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <000201c234b9$6acc1930$6401a8c0@pcukmka> from "Michael Kay" at Jul 26, 2002 04:30:48 PM

Michael Kay scripsit:

> 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.

Actually, not so good for EBCDIC either, because it means that each of the
dozens of EBCDIC code pages has to exist in two flavors, a native flavor
where 0x15 encodes U+0085, and an XML flavor where 0x15 encodes U+000A.
This is more or less what FTP software has to do, and it's ugly.

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