In article <4638f180$1@kcnews01>,
Joseph Kesselman <ke************@comcast.netwrote:
>However, it also makes the data more human-readable, which seems very
desirable when, for example, including a computer program in an XML
document.
>Only if you're editing the document as XML source.
Which I often am. As the design goals for XML put it, "XML documents
should be human-legible and reasonably clear". XML is not just an
internal format.
>Escaping choices should be purely
an artifact of the datastream rather than of the document semantics,
Yes...
>and the user shouldn't have to look at them.
.... but I don't see how that follows. Escaping choices should not
affect document semantics, so they can be made for reasons such as
human convenience.
-- Richard
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"Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.