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Re: Impact of xml:space="preserve" on line break normalizing?

• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: Impact of xml:space="preserve" on line break normalizing?
• From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@r...>
• Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:39:34 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3F5C854C.541A1B04@m...>; from costello@m... on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:34:04AM -0400
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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:34:04AM -0400, Roger L. Costello wrote:
> David Carlisle wrote:
> In the XML Schema specification, Section F.1.1 Character Class Escapes, it
> includes regular expressions for
> \n the newline character line-feed (#xA), and \r the return character (#xD),
> as well as the Unicode separator Category Escape (Z, Zs, Zl, Zp).
> 
> Why even have these if the end-of-line handling in XML 1.0 or 1.1 always
> normalizes these to line-feed (#xA)?

because they can still be passed to the application as character references
like #xA precisely !

Daniel

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