Re: the evils of quoting

Paul Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ng
Message-ID <[email protected]>

>>1. Header values don't have to span multiple lines and where necessary 
>>special characters can be escaped.
>
>You just built in an artificial limitation and a special case. So much for 
>parsing it in 20 lines of code, and now some things people might want to 
>do that you haven't thought of are no longer possible.
>
>down that road lies exactly what we're trying to avoid here.

Eh? I thought you wanted XML? With XML you MUST escape characters:

<Subject>I thought we had < 20 users</subject>
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