On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:40:22 -0400, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>At 9:35 PM +0100 6/20/01, Misha.Wolf@reuters.com wrote:
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>>| In addition, XML 1.0 attempts to adapt to the line-end conventions of
>>| various modern operating systems, but discriminates against the
>>| convention used on IBM and IBM-compatible mainframes. XML 1.0 documents
>>| generated on mainframes must either violate the local line-end
>>| conventions, or employ otherwise unnecessary translation phases before
>>| and after XML parsing and generation.
>>|
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>The concern with respect to IBM is that one of the world's largest
>corporations, with thousands of patents, legions of programmers,
>billions of dollars in revenue, and resources pouring out of every
>orifice is somehow unable to handle documents where lines end with
>carriage returns and line feeds, as documents do on every non-IBM system on
>the planet.
>
Unix and Apple do not use cr-lf!
Most pre-ASCII computers were unit-record and did not use CR-LF.
The problem is real for any operating system not using CR-LF.
Your antique attitude is showing!
I have seem IBM do dumb things to avoid looking monopolistic since the decree.
Most of the world is using that crappy Windows partly because of this attitude.
The bigger danger is from Microsoft. They probably would not even ask for a
a change. They would do what ever they want and try to make it the standard by fiat.
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