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Re: There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone

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• Subject: Re: There is a meaning, but it's not in the data alone
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:31:00 -0500
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• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Thursday 24 January 2002 05:31 am, Nicolas LEHUEN wrote:
> Granted, security is an
> important issue in this case, because the downloader renderer may
> decide that "<m t='Q'>" means "execute rm -Rf /*".

... signed applets etc. don't *really* work here either.

> As those concepts are expressed both in
> code and data, it means looking further than XML, which concentrates
> on data.

This is one point I've been trying to make: XML has no meaning so we 
should be looking at ways to package the interpreters in a safe and 
secure manner: deployment of XML applications.

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