- From: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley@Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:06:48 -0400
- To: "Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
On Oct 23, 2007, at 1:14 AM, Manger, James H wrote:
>
> The syntax is XML-friendly compared to Joe’s. Joe’s uses < > and &,
> which require escaping in XML -- making templates more awkward to
> read and write. < and > are already used as delimiters in HTTP
> headers, particularly the proposed Link-Template header. There may
> not be a clash if < and > only appear inside {…} within a template,
> but it adds some confusion.
>
IMO, this is an important consideration. I think its highly likely
that templates will be embedded in XML documents and having to escape/
unescape delimiters in templates will be a pain.
Marc.
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.
Received on Friday, 26 October 2007 14:07:04 UTC