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Jim DeLaHunt scripsit: > I'm not sure how important this is to your usage, but The Unicode > Standard already defines the meaning of a Byte Order Mark (BOM) code > point in the midst of data. Up until Unicode 3.2, the BOM code point > U+FEFF had the Byte Order Mark semantics at the start of a text > stream, and the Zero-Width Non-Breaking Space (ZWNBS) semantics > within a text stream. As such, your "<data>" element could validly > include a U+FEFF codoe point. That's true, but a U+FEFF cannot appear outside the root element, where only PIs, comments, and whitespace are valid, never character content. However, using a control character is easier on the recipient, who can split the documents before parsing them. -- Being understandable rather than obscurantist poses certain risks, in that one's opinions are clear and therefore | John Cowan falsifiable in the light of new data, but it has the | cowan@c... advantage of encouraging feedback from others. --James A. Matisoff
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