Re: XML 1.1 backwards compatibility

Paul is right. And I never ever liked it and I still don't.
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Saturday, February 12, 2005 7:04 AM
To: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>
cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
From: Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
Subject: Re: XML 1.1 backwards compatibility




On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:50:51AM -0500, Paul Grosso wrote:
>
> My memory is that the big reason we took out the C1 control
> characters from 1.1 was that folks like Rick Jelliffe wanted
> them to be an error so that we'd be able to catch more
> encoding errors.
>
> [I was always dubious of that argument/decision, but maybe
> I'm remembering things wrong/incompletely too.]

  that's my recollection too,

Daniel

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