• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:12:08 -0500
• Cc: jim.theriot@p...,xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3C20DF5E.2010304@r...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
• References: <NDBBKGBEKKCNMDLMKFOIEEGKDJAA.theriot@p...> <E16Gku3-00050F-00@s...> <3C20DF5E.2010304@r...>

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 01:41 pm, John Cowan wrote:
> Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> > The point is then, why complicate things with control characters for no
> > benefit whatsoever?
>
> The benefit is that text which *might* contain control characters,
> but usually does not, can be injected into the content of an element
> or attribute without having to Base64-encode it out of paranoia.

In my experience, I've seldom seen such text that wasn't subject to some 
encoding-based interpretation.

Seriously, the notion that "escape" is a character is questionable, don't you 
think?

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