Re: [PATCH] add --xml to proplist command

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, [UTF-8] Branko Ä^Libej wrote:

> señior ¿tyrtle? wrote:
>
> >Is using XML 1.1 a non-option...I think it allows control characters.
> >
> >
> IIRC, the last time we discussed using XML 1.1, the conclustion was that
> we can't use it in svn-1.x because of backward-compatibility concerns.
>
IN this case, we're just designing a new format that our software will not
have to read, so I don't see the compatibility problems. OTOH, I don't
think it is at all worth the trouble just to be able to display some
control characters in plaintext. We'll have to encode invalid UTF8 anyway.

//Peter

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Received on Tue Jul 26 23:10:52 2005