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Re: terra incognita

• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: terra incognita
• From: "K. Ari Krupnikov" <ari@c...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:33:25 +0000
• Cc: Alan Kent <ajk@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011216205651.02475de0@p...> <022d01c186e1$3fa7ce10$0500a8c0@carnage> <20011217115229.A1129@d...> <01a401c18853$eecc15e0$4bc8a8c0@A...> <008701c18859$80159710$2cd0a340@paultx> <011e01c18876$2e5c1670$0500a8c0@carnage> <20011219185301.M9114@i...> <p04330105b8464cd49527@[192.168.254.4]>
• Sender: kari@c...

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> At 6:53 PM +1100 12/19/01, Alan Kent wrote:
> 
> >Is there a good reason why PCDATA should not be allowed to contain the
> >bell (BEL) or escape (ESC) character? Why is it always evil to allow
> >terminal escape sequences to be embedded in an XML document? Why is it
> >important for XML to *not* permit it to be used for things that it was
> >not originally intended for?
> >
> 
> Among other reasons, because these characters can have unexpected
> consequences when presented on dumb terminals and terminal emulators,
> passed through gateways  and routers, and in other systems.

And because in XML when you need to sound a bell, you can say <bell/>,
not use an obscure, non-printing #07

Ari.

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