[WikiEN-l] [Wiki-research-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

[Anthony]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I've uploaded my latest attempt at converting the backup to XML:
>
> http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/wikipedia-2001-08-xml.7z
>
> The archive contains an invalid XML file, with control characters
> preserved, and a valid XML file, with control characters filtered.

Which control characters?  Aren't control characters allowed in XML 1.1?