XML spec moves ahead despite gripes. The World Wide Web Consortium advances XML 1.1 amid complaints that it is breaking the specification's backwards-compatibility in order to benefit IBM....

...The revision of XML comes with a trio of changes to the specification's treatment of Unicode, an increasingly global standard for representing characters in computerized text.

Among the Unicode revisions is a change that will specifically benefit users of IBM's mainframe systems--and that has inspired complaints that IBM is exercising more than its fair share of influence on the XML working group....

...The IBM-specific problem that XML 1.1 aims to fix has to do with a special character that designates to IBM mainframe systems the end of a line of text. XML 1.0 chokes on that character, but version 1.1 would recognize it.

[CNET News.com]

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