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XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags

Posted by Hemos on from the battle-in-the-works dept.

oever writes "News.com reports that the new XML 1.1 specification defines a new newline character, making it incompatible with the 1.0 specifiation. Apparently, IBM has been pushing the new character to avoid having to modify their software, thereby invalidating everybody else's XML software."

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  1. Embrace and extend, anyone? by dave-fu · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If one were to replace "IBM" with "Microsoft", I wonder what sort of self-righteous fury would be rained down for this sort of legacy document-smashing behavior (even if at the root, it's just bringing things in line with Unicode).

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  2. For all you W3 Standards Worshipers by hafidhahullah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Consider the brilliance of XHTML 2.0 abolishing the /> tag in favor of something that would read like this: <p> <line>public class HelloWorld {</line> <line>public static void main (String[] args){ </line> <line>System.out.println("Hello world!"); </line> <line>}</line> <line>}</line> </p> Why in the world should you expect the XML standard to be in complance with the Unicode standard?