Re: [xml-dev] Text editor mirage

[Tomos Hillman <yamahito@gmail.com>]

I would make the distinction between the serialisation of an XML file (a sequence of characters or text file) and the XML tree it represents.

Thanks,

Tom

On 13 Dec 2021, 12:42 +0000, 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