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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. How hard can it be... by meringuoid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... if this goes through, to write a batch converter to fix the newline characters?

    $ fixnewline *.xml

    Shouldn't take too much Perl... hell, a shell script could probably do it. Or am I missing something?

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  2. Karma, please by p3d0 · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Here's more info.

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