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On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Mark Volkmann wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Mark Volkmann wrote: > > > > > I've never seen a discussion of the reason why most ASCII control > > > characters, such as a form feed, are not allowed in XML documents. Can > > > anyone tell me the reason behind that decision or point me to a spec. > that > > > explains that? > > > > Two possible reasons: > > > > 1. They are unnecesary in XML - why have invisible codes when you can > > substitute <formfeed/> or <bell/>. > > I agree. I should have been more specific. What I'd really like to do is > output formfeeds from an XSLT stylesheet when the output mode is text. Since > XSLT stylesheets are XML documents, I cannot do that. Ah - then you need a better transformation language ;-) -- <Matt/> Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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