Re: 12. Are C1 controls and Unicode non-characters disallowed?

David Lee scripsit:

> To my reading that makes the spec, and the language more complex (it
> has higher information count because it takes more rules to define what
> not to do ... those restrictions could be simply removed e.g simplified,
> without without complication ...    )

We can say "U+FFFE and U+FFFF are banned in documents because that's
what XML says."

Or we can say "Unicode non-characters are banned in documents."

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Received on Monday, 10 September 2012 21:28:59 UTC