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NEL in XML 1.1

• To: cowan@m...
• Subject: NEL in XML 1.1
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:47:21 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20031022110554.GE13880@m...> (message from JohnCowan on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 07:05:54 -0400)
• References: <20031021220352.GI20875@s...> <200310212215.XAA00342@e3000> <20031022110554.GE13880@m...>

>> 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.
>

oops. So it's worse than I thought, not only is it covering up the
symptoms of a bad change it's introducing yet another class of documents
that become non well formed on changing teh version number.

David

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