From: "Michael Rys" <>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Some comments on the 1.1 draft
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:54:39 -0800
> Tim, with all due respect, but allowing #x0-@x1F inside element and
> attribute content would tremedeously help users of XML that use non-XML
> string sources for their data and map it into XML without loosing
> fidelity and without having to base 64 encode otherwise normal strings.
Since CR and LF are normalized to CRLF by the XML parser, how can you
expect fidelity? Allowing C0 control functions to not provide any
fidelity. It merely causes problems.
I think that we should rely on hexBinary and base64Binary of
XML Schema. :-)
Cheers,
Makoto
