- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:33:21 -0400 (EDT)
- To: michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com
- Cc: jcowan@reutershealth.com ('John Cowan'), ricko@allette.com.au ('Rick Jelliffe'), www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Michael Kay scripsit:
> You could do it without changing the definition of well-formedness by
> saying that the set of characters considered to be whitespace, and
> normalized as such, is a property of the encoding.
Fine and dandy for EBCDIC, but not so good for Latin-1 as used on mainframes,
where 0x85 = NEL.
Actually, not so good for EBCDIC either, because it means that each of the
dozens of EBCDIC code pages has to exist in two flavors, a native flavor
where 0x15 encodes U+0085, and an XML flavor where 0x15 encodes U+000A.
This is more or less what FTP software has to do, and it's ugly.
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Received on Friday, 26 July 2002 11:35:57 UTC