• From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@f...>
• To: Marcus Reichardt <u123724@g...>
• Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:54:59 -0500

On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 21:45 +0100, Marcus Reichardt wrote:
> Actually, the space character is *not* required by SGML.

Haha thanks! I always thought of that as part of minimization (and the
SGML Handbook implies it's a markup mimimization technique, but i see
now that i misread page 328.
> 
> So, once again, XML heads can't blame it on SGML :)
Haha, of course we can! Also Brexit and the mediæval Sumptuary Laws in
France!

Thank you for the correction.

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