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At 10:28 AM -0400 7/23/02, Karl Waclawek wrote:
>Also what about documents that are intentionally designed to parse
>under XML 1.0 *and* 1.1? Why force a choice on the parser?
I believe such a document is a very bad idea. All documents should be
XML 1.0 if at all possible. This is far more interoperable than the
alternative.
The only case that's not possible is where someone wants to use
post-2.0 Unicode characters in markup; e.g. by writing element names
in Amharic. Assuming you don't need to do this, you should write a
pure 1.0 document and ignore XML 1.1.
Note: I do not believe there is *ANY* need for allowing NEL in white
space. Any document that uses this can easily be rewritten in an XML
1.0 compliant way with carriage returns and linefeeds. Any competent
developer with the slightest concern for interoperability or longterm
storage will do this anyway, even if XML 1.1 allows NEL.
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