Re: XML and whitespace: lets just dump CR and LF!

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Tue, 05 Aug 1997 07:07:59 -0700


At 11:13 PM 05/08/97 +1000, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>**A) XML applications should ignore *ALL* CR and LF as a bad joke......
>
>I certainly think that CR/LF should be not of interest to XML-lang...
>Lets dump them!

Heh-heh. If you go look in the proceedings of the 1988 Usenix conference,
you'll find a paper I wrote, on the Oxford English Dictionary project,
which has a section entitled

'\n' Considered Harmful

I'd love to lose the record-end silliness. Trouble is, we're stuck with
it until we have better editing tools. -T.