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RE: basic qs - how is xml more flexible for exchanging data?

• To: "'Anil Philip'" <goodnewsforyou@y...>,"'xml dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: basic qs - how is xml more flexible for exchanging data?
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:56:00 +0100
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My copy of the C language specification says that the language doesn't
define how many bits there are in a character or integer, what character
code is used, what order the fields in a struct are stored in, whether
integers are twos complement, or in fact anything else about the physical
representation of data. So how can this possibly define an interchange
format that anyone can rely on?

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anil Philip [mailto:goodnewsforyou@y...] 
> Sent: 15 September 2005 21:11
> To: Michael Kay; 'xml dev'
> Subject: RE:  basic qs - how is xml more flexible 
> for exchanging data?
> 
> I dont think you understood the post - I meant when
> one transfers binary data (in a file or stream). I am
> not referring to C compilers and it's not about
> metadata or validation. Where are you now?
> 
> --- Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote:
> 
> > Two C compilers on different architectures would
> > represent that structure
> > quite differently. There's no data interchange there
> > at all except between
> > identical machines with identical compilers running
> > identical applications;
> > there's no scope for attaching metadata to the
> > message; there's no scope for
> > validation... Where have you been all these years?
> > 
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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