On 16/07/2012 13:19, David Lee wrote:
> So far I have tried to define the syntax without actually choosing the separator as it is largely arbitrary
> *as long as it is impossible to show up in the plain text of any serialized XDM value*
>
> Unfortunately those pesky CDATA sections make the set of charactors fairly small.
But isn't that exactly what the control characters are for, eg
U+000C FORM FEED
or
U+001F INFORMATION SEPARATOR ONE
But you still have to know the text encoding (unless you fix that it is
always (say) utf-8). Otherwise any byte could appear anywhere.
David
________________________________________________________________________
The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England
and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is:
Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom.
This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is
powered by MessageLabs.
________________________________________________________________________