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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > > I don't expect the IETF to change this anytime soon, but it does seem like > something that could stand improvement. XML isn't really a text format - > Tim Bray used to say, it's a replacement for ASCII. I think that Tim meant to say that it is *analogous* to ASCII. It sure isn't a replacement for Unicode or ASCII in any sense. There are going to be many places in the Web information system where ASCII and Unicode are used without XML. The most reasonable way to handle this would be to allow mime types to have arbitrary levels. Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco Don't you know that the smart bombs are so clever, they only kill bad people." - http://www.boingo.com/lyrics/WarAgain.html 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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