Re: [xml-dev] Achieving interoperability in a world where different OS's

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

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> Traditionally a bunch of Unix utilities went wrong if you did not have a newline (LF, \n) at the end of the file, so the "vi" editor took to warning people if they opened a file like this. The utilities are all (mostly?) fixed and have been for years, but the warning persists.
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This presumably explains the peculiar rules that regular expressions have for semi-ignoring a newline appearing as the last character in an input string.

Michael Kay
Saxonica