Re: [Show] Re: svn commit: r19299 - branches/nonxml-entries/subversion/libsvn_wc

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> ...
> Good point, but I don't see any reason to impose XML 1.0's limitation
> on this format. Most fields won't store control characters.
>
> Regards,
> //Peter

Well,

if you allow control characters now (what for?), you make it harder to
go back to an XML-based format in the future. Or for that matter, you
make it impossible to produce XML from the text based format using a
simple script (as it was discussed here before).

In general, when moving away from an XML format I think the following
issues need to considered:

- character encoding
- allowed character set
- escaping
- extensibility (!) / versioning

...because if you move away from XML these are the benefits you're losing.

Best regards,

Julian

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Received on Tue Apr 11 12:53:05 2006