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Of course it can't. It's designed to be human-readable which control characters aren't. What eg. does BEL (ascii 07 IIRC) look like do you reckon.
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Of course it can't. It's designed to be human-readable which control characters aren't. What eg. does BEL (ascii 07 IIRC) look like do you reckon.
- bawolff 6y agoIdeally it would look like  Its useful to be able to encode arbitrary characters even if they aren't human readable.
- kzrdude 6y agoFair. Is the NUL character included in that?
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valid_characters_in_XML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valid_characters_in_XML "Note that the code point U+0000, assigned to the null control character, is the only character encoded in Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 that is always invalid in any XML 1.0 and 1.1 document" That wiki article may be worth a skim.
- kzrdude 6y agoI'm asking the commenter's opinion, not about current state of XML. Still thanks for the link.