- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:43:33 +0100
- To: jcowan@reutershealth.com
- CC: xml-dev@lists.xml.org, xml-editor@w3.org
> but extended-ASCII files won't > work that way: plaintext expects NEL (#x85). If the file is in extended-ibm-ascii then stick encoding="extended-ibm-ascii" in the xml declaration and the job is done. It only works on parsers that know that encoding but compared to the cost to everyone of changing the white space rules in XML this is always going to be preferable. Even if you do bring out a 1.1 that has NEL in white space anyone who cares about portability would be better advised to use 1.0 and such an encoding declaration rather than use 1.1. I think you should do 1.1 to allow unicode 3+ characters in names, but changing the white space rules is just gratuitous incompatibility that helps no one, not even users of NEL. David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
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