• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:50:02 -0400

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:


> As I've said before, that data, while valuable, is not XML. If IBM wants 
> to convert it to XML, then they can most certainly change the line 
> endings as they go. It's just bytes after all.

Yes, but then it ceases to be plain text.  The choice "plaintext xor
XML" is very unpalatable.

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