[r6rs-discuss] XML line endings

Per Bothner per at bothner.com
Mon Nov 20 14:25:02 EST 2006


Chris Hanson wrote:
> I note that the standard eol-styles do not include anything suitable
> for reading XML documents.  XML 1.0 allows any of LF, CR, or CRLF on
> input.  XML 1.1 additionally allows NEL (U+0085), CR-NEL, and U+2028.
> Parsers are required to recognize any of these styles.
> 
> I suggest that it would be useful to provide standard names for these
> styles, but not to require their implementation.

I'm not sure we need a name for this, since allowing any of these
line endings should be the default behavior.
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