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They would all mean nothing in the context of the markup (ie they are exposed as a character information item with their Unicode code point) and display is left to the output device. Best regards Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:ricko@a...] > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 18:39 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft > > From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...> > > > Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > > > > > If you don't do this, your binary data *cannot* be reliably > transferred, > > > especially in the face of transcoding. > > > > I agree that it is inappropriate to embed binary (octet) data into > > XML documents. In practice, forbidding #&0; would achieve that > > purpose. > > What about ^D and ^Z?? These have been end-of-file markers for > text files in various operating systems. What about ^S and ^Q, used > for flow control in serial comms. What about backspace: what does > that mean in markup, and how should it be displayed? > > Cheers > Rick Jelliffe > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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