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  • From: "Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>
  • To: "'Bradley S. Huffman'" <hip AT cs.okstate.edu>, <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Tab support for nu.xom.Serializer?
  • Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:43:17 +0100

> > A tab means indent. Nothing more, nothing less.
>
> Tab has no meaning, it's just a character. The context is what
> determines "meaning".

It's an old debate whether characters have meaning. Unicode says they do:
which is why two characters can "look the same" and still have different
codes.

But tab is only a character because someone goofed. Thank heavens we no
longer store backspace as a character in text files: tab should have gone
the same way.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/






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