Re: [xml] Bug#500015: Cannot parse feed containing SOH character

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 08:49:40AM -0400, Syd Bauman wrote:
> > I got this forwarded as a wishlist bug for libxml2, but that
> > doesn't sound right to me. I always thought control characters are
> > not allowed in XML, though looking in the XML spec, I can't find
> > anything definitive...
>
> I believe that U+0001 is not a valid character in XML 1.0 [1] and is
> a valid character in XML 1.1 [2].

  Yes, one of the reasons why I will never implement XML-1.1 in libxml2.
XML is a textual format. With XML-1.0 5th edition, the only thing useful
missing from the 1.1 specs is the xmlns:foo="" allowing to undefine non
default namespace bindings in a subtree, but we can't add this to XMLNS 1.0

Daniel

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