Re: [xml-dev] Some comments on the 1.1 draft

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 09:53 pm, Michael Rys wrote:
> They would all mean nothing in the context of the markup (ie they are
> exposed as a character information item with their Unicode code point)
> and display is left to the output device.

Rick's point is that these are not text. The fact that they are characters in 
Unicode is more an accident of history than anything else, I think.