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Base64 encoding is fine for full binary data. The issue is for those occasions where you have a string type that contains x0-x1F occassionally. Best regards Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:ricko@a...] > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 23:02 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: MSXML DOM Special Chars Less Than 32 > > From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...> > > > > Tim Bray scripsit: > > > > > Doesn't base64 meet this requirement? -Tim > > > > No. That is a format for transmitting octets, not characters. > > But one of the use cases for base64 was to handle control characters! > Certainly that was my expectation on the Schema WG. > > If base64 is broken in some way, it should be fixed up. The Core WG > should raise this issue with the XML Schemas WG, if it feels that base64 > is not usable. > > Are you saying that base64 should actually be (available) a lexical facet > on > datatypes? That would seem to be a good approach. Or maybe to > add Q-encoding to base64 and base16. > > Cheers > Rick Jelliffe > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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