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At 11:56 AM -0700 10/22/03, Jonathan Coxhead wrote: >> > Don't know about <LF, CR>. I think that should be two line ends. >> >> I agree. I don't know any system that uses this sequence. > > The BBC Micro---well-known to a generation of British schoolchildren---used >this sequence. You can probably find files in that encoding on some 5.25in >floppies in DFS format in some store cupboards somewhere (for what that's >worth). My God! I had no idea. Those poor British school children who can't write XML on their BBC micros! Clearly we must allow LFCR as a legal line ending in XML 1.1. It's a matter of justice! (Tongue firmly in cheek.) -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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