Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> If you don't do this, your binary data *cannot* be reliably transferred,
> especially in the face of transcoding.
I agree that it is inappropriate to embed binary (octet) data into
XML documents. In practice, forbidding #&0; would achieve that
purpose.
However, the control characters are *characters*, not really very
different from other control characters in the Unicode space
which are already allowed: not only the ISO C1 controls, but
also such things as: the Mongolian variant controls (and the
Unicode 3.2 generic variant controls); the bidi marks, overrides,
etc; and the music symbol begins/ends.
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