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Re: Quick Review of XML 1.1 Candidate Recommendation

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• Subject: Re: Quick Review of XML 1.1 Candidate Recommendation
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:45:08 +0100 (BST)
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• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>P.S., I think the reason that U+0000 is not allowed as an XML character
>is that the standard C libraries (and maybe other libraries) cannot allow
>nulls in strings. It is a sensible rule IMHO.

Yes, it would break existing APIs in a very hard-to-fix way.  If nul
had been in from the start so that all C and similar APIs had to use
counted strings that would have been an annoyance; to change it now
would be unacceptable.

-- Richard

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  • Quick Review of XML 1.1 Candidate Recommendation
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>

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