RE: [xml-dev] Some comments on the 1.1 draft

["Michael Rys" <mrys@microsoft.com>]

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@allette.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 18:39 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Some comments on the 1.1 draft
> 
>  From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
> 
> > 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
> 
> 
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