[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
Eric van der Vlist wrote: > Michael Rys wrote: > > > Sorry but my use case is not serializing arbitrary binary data, but > > arbitrary TEXT data according to the originating type system (such as a > > database or a C#, C++, Java etc based webservice). Unfortunately, such > > TEXT properties may contain control characters, since the originating > > type system does not preclude them. Requiring people to base 64 encode > > TEXT just to deal with the 0.1% of cases where control characters may > > appear seems to be problematic. > > > The problem seems to be that this TEXT doesn't enter into the definition > of text made in XML 1.0, but it should be possible to represent it > differently using what we have at hand. Isn't that what character references are for? You already need to escape characters such as single and/or double quotes, < & etc, so adding a few numbers to a case statement doesn't seem to be a huge deal. Jonathan
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