I would welcome this as a compromise, since I currently have to look through text anyway to entitize other data.

Best regards

Michael

> -----Original Message-----

> From: MURATA Makoto [mailto:murata@h...]

> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 16:03 PM

> To: Michael Rys

> Cc: xml-dev@l...

> Subject: Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft

>

> From: "Michael Rys" <mrys@m...>

> Subject: RE: Some comments on the 1.1 draft

> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:14:59 -0800

>

> > The normalization of CR, LF and CRLF can be avoided by using their

> > character entities. So I still can preserve fidelity.

>

> You are right.

>

> How do you feel about allowing character references to C0

> control functions rather than using them directly?  I was once

> told that such changes are harmful, since bidirectional conversion

> between characters and character references is useful for I18N.

> However, since #&xD; cannot be safely converted to carriage-return,

> such bidirectional conversion is already impossible.

>

> Cheers,

>

> Makoto