Re: [xml-dev] "Introducing MicroXML, Part 1: Explore the basic principle

[David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>]

On 16/07/2012 13:19, David Lee wrote:
> So far I have tried to define the syntax without actually choosing the separator as it is largely arbitrary
> *as long as it is impossible to show up in the plain text of any serialized XDM value*
>
> Unfortunately those pesky CDATA sections make the set of charactors fairly small.

But isn't that exactly what the control characters are for, eg

U+000C FORM FEED
or
U+001F INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE

But you still have to know the text encoding (unless you fix that it is 
always (say) utf-8). Otherwise any byte could appear anywhere.


David



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