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Re: The Internet Principle (was: Some comments on the 1.1 draft)

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To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Subject: Re: The Internet Principle (was: Some comments on the 1.1 draft)
From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:31:25 -0500
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
In-reply-to: <3C222097.9080906@reutershealth.com>
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On Thursday 20 December 2001 12:32 pm, John Cowan wrote:
> > That said, even in these cases, I think control characters are not text.
>
> All that is done by line-end characters in XML could be done by
> markup, but we do not go so far as to ban them, or even to filter
> them out at the parser level.

True, however line feeds/paragraph spacing is a feature of many written 
languages. BEL is not.

References:
- RE: [xml-dev] Some comments on the 1.1 draft
  - From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
- Re: [xml-dev] Some comments on the 1.1 draft
  - From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>
- The Internet Principle (was: Some comments on the 1.1 draft)
  - From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>

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