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"Samuel R. Blackburn" wrote: > > A couple of weeks ago on this list, there was a thread that was > lamenting the slow adoption of XML in the web community. > > It seems to me that one of the first problems programmers > encounter is XML's inability to handle "binary" data. Once they > hit that wall, they drop XML and move on to something else > (usually a custom format). First, binary data is not a wall. It's at most a gate. There are several ways to handle it, none of them particularly onerous. My favourite is "tar". Second, recall that binary junk is what we are running away from. Consider: <ms:word xml:length="10000 bytes"></ms:word> Yuck! I will rue the day I crash "vi" or "more" by looking at an XML document. I think that it is a much better practice to have the XML document contain only human-readable, human-editable text and LINKS to necessarily non-readable stuff. I suppose I would make an exception for streaming processes that want to interleave tags and data: base64 handles this fine. Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco Bart: Dad, do I really have to brush my teeth? Homer: No, but at least wash your mouth out with soda. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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