- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:41:32 -0400
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: micro xml <public-microxml@w3.org>
James Clark scripsit:
> > Why the funky escape sequences instead of \<, \>, etc.?
>
> The named character reference syntax is not the greatest.
If I had to redesign them, I'd use \L for <, \R for >, \Q for ",
and \A for '. That way, you only need to escape \ (as \B, say)
if it precedes an L, R, Q, or A, and you can easily write
an escaping routine that *never* double-escapes.
> I don't see XML, HTML and SGML as equivalent here. I think our
> potential audience is very likely to be familiar with HTML.
Fair enough.
--
Normally I can handle panic attacks on my own; John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
but panic is, at the moment, a way of life. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
--Joseph Zitt
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