- From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@topologi.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:44:20 +1000
- To: <www-i18n-comments@w3.org>
From: "Martin Duerst" <duerst@w3.org> > ISO 2022 works on a different level than the escape sequences > we are talking about. Great! A chance to air my pet peeve. To "escape" a character means to allow it to be used with a different significance. So in C "\" is the delimiter character, and "\\" is the escaped delimiter. In XML, the only escaping is provided by CDATA marked sections (and perhaps by comments and PIs). In SGML, you could optionally have a "markup suppression" character that acted as an escape too. An entity reference is not an "escape". To keep on calling it an "escape" loses a valuable distinction, and can only promote confusion, because it lumps together references and real escapes. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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