At 4:43 PM -0400 6/21/01, John Cowan wrote:
>Let me also note that it is only *parsers* that are affected by
>this particular change. It does *not* require change at any level
>above the parser. U+0085 (and hopefully U+2028 as well), like the
>existing CR and LF and CR/LF sequences, would be mapped by a
>Blueberry
>parser to the universal XML convention of LF. Once that is done,
>higher levels will see only LF.
>
Would that it were so. It's not. Among other non-parser things that
will be affected are:
1. Test suites
2. Other specs such as canonical XML
3. All sorts of books and printed documentation that will become
inaccurate as a result of this change.
4. Systems that use a parser to read XML, but will need to be
retested and validated when the parser they use is changed.
5. Systems that rely on regular expressions rather than a full
parser. (I've seen a few of these out in the wild.)
This is just what I can think of off the top of my head. There's probably more.
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