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David Megginson wrote: > [snip] > XML documents may (and perhaps, usually will) contain non-XML objects > such as wordprocessor documents, spreadsheets, MPEG clips, Java > applets, audio sequences, and many others -- to date, thankfully, no > one has proposed uuencoding any these and dumping them inline between > a start and and tag. > [snip] Am I to understand from this paragraph that there would be something wrong with uuencoded or base64'd resources, like audio clips or even a Java class, between a start and end tag? I thought this would be a given. Sure using XLL or simple url hrefs are great, but many times the requirement is for a single file with all resources literally included. This is similar conceptually to the intent of MIME, and MHTML, and OLE (at one time the E meant something -- embedding). Syntactically MIME derived methods aren't nearly as nice as stuffing the resource between a start and end tag. Take a look at the Internet Open Trading Protocol http://www.otp.org:8080/ It does this all over the place. A packaging standard to encapsulate all of the resources in the same file is nice, but why isn't legitimate to place them all inline? Gavin. ======================================================== Gavin F. McKenzie Vox:+1(613)230-3676 ext 5277 JetForm Corporation Fax:+1(613)594-8886 http://www.jetform.com mailto:gmckenzi@j... ======================================================== xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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