[Scribus] queries about the .sla/.xml connection

[Gregory Pittman]

I continue to try to understand something about why certain decisions 
were made in regard to .sla files.

A recurrent question is why the text in a text frame is an attribute 
rather than character data.  I seems all the examples of xml I can find 
never do it this way. It might explain the parsing problem that Perl 
has, but perhaps also the ongoing struggle with editing frames with or 
without Story Editor.

And related -- why use Ctrl-E for carriage return? This is a major 
problem with XML::Parser in Perl.  I suppose I can write a perl program 
to switch this, then switch it back (I know, I know, why use perl at 
all...but processing text files is really the bread and butter of what 
perl can do so well). On the other hand, why not create an xml tag for 
line break or carriage return?

Gregory Pittman