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Bug 2693 - [Ser] conflicting sentence whether NEL should be escaped
Summary: [Ser] conflicting sentence whether NEL should be escaped
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Serialization 1.0 (show other bugs)
Version: Candidate Recommendation
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Joanne Tong
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Reported: 2006-01-11 18:44 UTC by Joanne Tong
Modified: 2006-01-20 21:54 UTC (History)
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Description Joanne Tong 2006-01-11 18:44:30 UTC 
According to last note in section 5 (XML Output Method), one paragraph states 
that NEL must be escaped, while the second paragraph states that non-
whitespace control characters other than NEL must be escaped.

"...For this reason, NEL and LINE SEPARATOR characters in text and attribute 
nodes must always be escaped using character references, regardless of the 
value of the version parameter."

"...Therefore, the non-whitespace control characters in the ranges #x1 through 
#x1F and #x7F through #x9F, other than NEL, MUST always be escaped, regardless 
of the value of the version parameter."

Suggested resolution:  remove ", other than NEL," from the second quote.
Comment 1 Joanne Tong 2006-01-20 21:54:52 UTC 
The working group agreed to remove ", other than NEL," from the 2nd paragraph 
and also to remove the bolding of the 'MUST' in the Note to make clear(er) 
that it's just a rationale for the normative text above.