- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:11:34 +0200
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
Robert Burns wrote: > ... > I see now that XML 1.1 permits all of these control characters as part > of the document character set, however all of these ASCII control > characters must be included only as character references in XML 1.1. > That leaves only the issues of surrogates; whitespace handling for these > characters (if any: e.g., U+000B, U+000C, and U+0085). Though I think > our WGs practice of finding use cases for a feature before including it > is apt here too. Is being compatible with XML 1.1 enough of a use case? > How would authors use these characters? > ... My personal impression was that XML 1.1 is a failure; thus I wouldn't recommend HTML5 to rely on XML 1.1 features for the XML serialization. We really should answer the question we asked before: why would it be conforming to include those characters in the first place? Best regards, Julian
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