Re: [xml-dev] version numbers and infosets

David Carlisle scripsit:
> 
> 
> > That means that on mainframe platforms, XML files are not plaintext files
> > and vice versa.  As a matter of justice, this is intolerable.
> 
> No, it just means that the files should specify an encoding such that
> the NEL byte in the file maps to #10.

Well, maybe you can do that for EBCDIC files (although it means having
two distinct mappings on the platform), but extended-ASCII files won't
work that way: plaintext expects NEL (#x85).

> Ie the ebcdic - ascii/unicode translation should do as you'd expect if
> doing an ftp transfer in ascii mode.

You can do that if you are transferring files, but not if you are sharing
them via NFS or similar.

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Received on Wednesday, 24 July 2002 07:35:44 UTC