• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: The Internet Principle (was: Some comments on the 1.1 draft)
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:31:25 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3C222097.9080906@r...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Thursday 20 December 2001 12:32 pm, John Cowan wrote:
> > That said, even in these cases, I think control characters are not text.
>
> All that is done by line-end characters in XML could be done by
> markup, but we do not go so far as to ban them, or even to filter
> them out at the parser level.

True, however line feeds/paragraph spacing is a feature of many written 
languages. BEL is not.

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  • Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
    • From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
  • The Internet Principle (was: Some comments on the 1.1 draft)
    • From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>

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