Comment 40 for bug 191199

(In reply to comment #36)
> Except that you can't, see the fourth line in that section (or any of the other
> thousands of places googling "form feed xml" will show you people being shocked
> to find they can't "just use XML" to wrap any data). You simply *cannot*
> represent a form-feed in XML 1.0 content.

Exactly.

> You can use , to turn an
> actual form-feed character into the literal string "&x12;" if you find that
> noisy dataloss is better than silent dataloss, but you can no more use 
> than you can use the actual character.

Okay, that's interesting. It doesn't buy much but at least it keep the code
from silently eating parts of the users' data. Personally, I favor just nuking them since the most common case in my experience is that these characters are artifacts of copy/paste and are not intentional.

> (Thanks to its desire to be as incompatible and unused as possible, you
> actually can have  in your XML 1.1, though good luck finding anything to
> consume XML 1.1 :)

Heh, yeah. I expect to have my flying car /long/ before any 1.1 parsers make it
out of the lab.