• From: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• To: The Deviants <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 15:24:45 +0100 (BST)

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Darshan Singh wrote:

> To save binary data as part of XML you'll have to use Base64 encoding. I
> don't have Java code that illustrates that, but following article might be
> useful just to get an idea:
> XML and binary data
> http://www.PerfectXML.com/articles/xml/binary.asp

Hmmm, it'd be nice if XML was more compact, faster to parse, and let you
embed other data streams more easily - do we *have* to make it
human-readable UTF-8? Surely a binary format would be much better if there
were good tools easily available to hand-edit it?

ABS

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