Re: [xml-dev] XML-1.1 -- just ignore it

[Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>]

On Sunday 16 December 2001 07:42 pm, David Brownell wrote:
> > >I actually meant closer to the Reader level in java.io (or nio Channel).
> >
> > Not all XML parsers are written in Java.
>
> ... and even if they were, introducing a new standard at
> that level, just for reading XML, seems like a bad idea.
>
> Layer that stuff!

Actually, this is the best place to introduce it otherwise the differences 
will show up in higher layers.... and complicate general processing in ways 
very similar to whitespace...