Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8+names

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John Cowan <>
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David Carlisle <>
Date
2003-10-22T11:05:54Z
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Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8+names
David Carlisle scripsit:

> Being able to read as far as the encoding declaration using only
> characters < 127 in the vast majority of cases is a real benefit,

The Core WG agreed.

> if NEL is allowed there, that benefit is lost, if it is special cased
> and not allowed there, that is just covering up the symptoms of a bad
> change (and keeping the "injustice" that NEL style line breaks are
> second class).

XML 1.1 is almost certainly going to ban line breaks in the XML and text
declarations altogether.  They don't buy anyone anything.

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