From: Elliotte Rusty Harold (elharo@metalab.unc.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 22 2003 - 15:26:44 CST
At 11:56 AM -0700 10/22/03, Jonathan Coxhead wrote:
>> > Don't know about <LF, CR>. I think that should be two line ends.
>>
>> I agree. I don't know any system that uses this sequence.
>
> The BBC Micro---well-known to a generation of British schoolchildren---used
>this sequence. You can probably find files in that encoding on some 5.25in
>floppies in DFS format in some store cupboards somewhere (for what that's
>worth).
My God! I had no idea. Those poor British school children who can't
write XML on their BBC micros! Clearly we must allow LFCR as a legal
line ending in XML 1.1. It's a matter of justice!
(Tongue firmly in cheek.)
-- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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