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Re: [weirds] feedback on draft-designteam-weirds-using-http

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 17 May 2012 19:38 UTC

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On 2012-05-17 20:54, Andy Newton wrote:
> ...
>>> Ah yes, the escaping needs to be changed from JSON to XML.
>>
>> There's still a set of characters that won't be usable in XML (yes, not even escaped).
>
> That would be&,<, and>. So I guess we should mention those are to be escaped as well. Gosh XML is overly complex.
> ...

No :-).

JSON allows all C0 control characters. XML only allows TAB, CR, and LF. 
You can't represent the others in plain XML (you can always invent 
*another* escaping syntax on top of XML, though).

And no, XML is not overly complex. It just has certain constraints that 
make sense for the things it was designed for.

Best regards, Julian

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