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Re: UTF-8+names

• To: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Subject: Re: UTF-8+names
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:05:54 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200310212215.XAA00342@e3000>
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David Carlisle scripsit:

> Being able to read as far as the encoding declaration using only
> characters < 127 in the vast majority of cases is a real benefit,

The Core WG agreed.

> if NEL is allowed there, that benefit is lost, if it is special cased
> and not allowed there, that is just covering up the symptoms of a bad
> change (and keeping the "injustice" that NEL style line breaks are
> second class).

XML 1.1 is almost certainly going to ban line breaks in the XML and text
declarations altogether.  They don't buy anyone anything.

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