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RE: General fields

• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• To: xml-dev@X...
• Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:13:48 -0500

The first solution is weak and presupposes a 
web application semantic.  The second is weak and 
presupposes local application semantics. 

Hmm.  Notations I guess.

Len Bullard
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-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Arnold [mailto:carnold@h...]
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:52 PM
To: xml-dev@x...
Subject: RE: General fields


> When creating a schema (in this case, XDR) what is
> the best way to denote a so-called, General field?
> Using Visual FoxPro, this is defined to contain
> images, sounds, etc. typically OLE objects.

I would either use an element with an href to an external resource, like

<image href="logo.jpg"/>

Or if it has to be in the document, something like

<image> mime or binhex representation goes here</image>


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