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On Thursday 20 December 2001 01:36 am, Alan Kent wrote:
>And thats where it gets hard. Philisophically, is it better to stop
>people from doing things that might be wrong or better to allow people
>to do more things and wear the responsibility if it was wrong?
This is really a serious part of the question here. I personally tend toward
"more choice, more personal responsibility" philosophically. That said, I
also live a lawful life and abide my the constraints that society places upon
me (for the most part).
Martin Duerst has a very good saying here: that standards establish the
*mininum* level of interoperability. For XML to be a pervasivley used as it
is, especially as a document markup language, I think it is important to
place some restrictions on it.
At a more abstract level, XML is defined in terms of characters, and many of
the control characetrs are really debatably characters in the first place.
Unicode, like many standards, is a compromise, and the control characters are
an artifact of that compromise.
XML does not have to inherit the sins of others.
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