Re: [xml-dev] Text editor mirage

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

This is nothing to do with XML, it's equally true of any text file. The representation of newline as a pseudo-character is part of the Unix tradition, inherited from paper tape. On mainframes, and in the punched card tradition, a file containing multiple lines/records is genuinely two-dimensional.

Michael Kay

Saxonica

On 13 Dec 2021, at 12:42, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle@gmail.com> wrote:

Roger wrote

> There are no <, D, o, … symbols in the XML. The XML is just a series of hex digits:

I'd disagree with that.

an XML document is defined as a sequence of characters.

Those characters may be stored in various ways, certainly if it is stored in UTF-16 the underlying bytes stored would not be the ones you showed.

David