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> anyone cared. If people started receiving XML files with NEL in them, > it probably would be changed. That's my take on the whole NEL, CR, CRLF, LF thing too. Many text editors today support the Windows and Unix conventions. There are still a number of text editors that do *not*, but it is reasonable to assume that most programmers will be able to figure out how to open any XML 1.0 file and view it properly. This would not have been true 12 years ago, but text editors have had time to "catch up" with the mixing of DOS and Unix text files. Also, this would *not* be true today if XML 1.0 permitted NEL. So XML 1.0 seems like a trade-off between supporting the most originating platforms and supporting the most consumer developers. Maybe one day a larger portion of the text editors that people commonly use will support NEL. (Incidentally, I bet 12 years ago more of them *did*)
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