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XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags
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."
That explains why my website was one long paragraph.
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
If we don't allow the IBM EOL in XML 1.1 ...
How will we ever communicate with Master Control Program?
End Of Line
www.bannination.com Two things float to the top he
<rant about="IBM" why="'FOR BREAKING COMPATIBILLITY">IBM SUCKS</rant>
IBM will make the new newline character a '$'
(Just kidding)
In other news - Julius Caesar stabbed and died.
Anyway - for how long 1.1 draft has been out?
[/me raises hand]
Ummm, sir, could you explain to me exactly what a "strategic business strategy" is?
World Wide Web Consortium still meeting over IBM resolutions
Posted: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 0:18 AEST
The five permanent members of the World Wide Web Consortium are meeting overnight in an attempt to agree on a resolution on IBM. W3C diplomats say there are signs HP and Sun are now moving towards a compromise, after weeks of wrangling over the XML issue.
HP wants clear instructions given to Microsoft that it return to the World Wide Web Consortium before taking legal action, while the Microsoft wants more leeway for itself and its allies. Meanwhile, the HP CEO, Carly Fiorina, has given another strong warning against the use of force against IBM.
Speaking at the opening of a summit of XML using companies in the Silicon Valley, Mrs Fiorina said legal force must only be used as a last resort. She called for all conflicts to be resolved in ways respecting international law, as this was the only guarantee against what she described as "adventurist" policies.
Speak truth to power.
Let us not forget that it was New Line that callously yanked Tolkien's loveable Tom Bombadil! It was New Line that turned Arwen into a heroic Nazgul-racing babe-elf! It was New Line that left out poor Glorfindel and his big moment at the river altogether!
I don't know about anyone else, but I think it's only fitting that a New Line character be messed with.
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I have Unix underpants.
Main Screen Turn-On.
We get signal.
Someone set us up a special character.
It's you.
Good evening gentlemen
W3C are belong to us.
You are on a path to destruction
EBCDIC has won yet another chess game against the Grim Reaper.
-Kevin
And what about old telex machine users that used x0A0A0D (CRCRLF) in case the carrige got stuck?
You may think this is funny. but there is still some software out there that assumes a mechanical teletype at the far end, sending weather bulletins to Africa, football scores to the Beeb, etc.
**TODO** Steal someone elses sig.
No, I'm not.
Karma: Undead.
damn that lameness filter
Reason: Your comment looks too much like ascii art.
ever wondered what alt-gr is for?
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I wish someone would invent an HTML tag for ordered lists that would number the items automatically. ;-)
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
Compare the elegance of LISP brackets to overbloated XML tags. Compare the ability to share same syntax with code and data in LISP with oversimplified XML tags. Make a conclusion.
"I shall explain this by waving my hands about in an appropriate manner." -- Cambridge University Math Dept.