Re: XML GNUstep defaults (was: [flame] NEWS file is useless)

[David Chisnall]

On 27 Nov 2009, at 08:39, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> The question is, do we want to write illegal XML in property lists?   
> At the moment the code can write legal XML or illegal (OSX  
> compatible) XML depending on the OSX compatibility defaults  
> setting.  If we assume that 'XML' property lists will never actually  
> be processed by real XML parsers, we don't need the additional  
> encoding.


I think the best bet would be to be compatible with other property  
list parsers.  How does the NetBSD XML property list parser cope with  
illegal characters?  Does WindowMaker support XML plists and, if so,  
can it handle them?

David

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