Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-murata-kohn-lilley-xml-03

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:28:29 +0200, Chris Lilley <chris at w3.org> wrote:
> The troublesome text is in section 4.1. Text Media Type  of RFC 2046
>
>   The canonical form of any MIME "text" subtype MUST always represent
>   a line break as a CRLF sequence. Similarly, any occurrence of CRLF
>   in MIME "text" MUST represent a line break. Use of CR and LF outside
>   of line break sequences is also forbidden.
>
>   This rule applies regardless of format or character set or sets
>   involved.
>
> Clearly, that is incompatible with UTF-16, one of the two mandatory
> encodings for XML.

Plenty of other formats violate this rule too. Formats like HTML and CSS.  
It seems that if the Web's more successful formats all violate this rule  
in practice, we should fix the rule. Rough consensus and running code,  
right?


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Anne van Kesteren
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