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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net> on 2004/11/29 23:32:04 UTC

Re: issue #1954

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2004 kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>Okay, after some research to aid my always-sieve-like memory, it looks
>>like any character can be encoded in an XML attribute using typical
>>"&" char encoding, as in:
>>
>>   <element attr="look_I_have_a_quote_&#x22;_in_my_value"/>
>>
>>So, we can represent any UTF8 string we want, right?
>>
> 
> As I pointed out, I interpreted the spec differently? What spec did you
> look in? 1.1?

My understanding is the same, there's no way to represent a number of 
different control characters in XML 1.0.  Some parsers may accept them, 
but it is not technically correct.

-garrett

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Re: issue #1954

Posted by Julian Reschke <ju...@gmx.de>.
Garrett Rooney wrote:
> ...
> My understanding is the same, there's no way to represent a number of 
> different control characters in XML 1.0.  Some parsers may accept them, 
> but it is not technically correct.

If an XML 1.0 parser accepts control characters other than CR, LF and 
TAB -- no matter expressed how -- it has a severe bug.

Best regards, Julian

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