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Re: How to use binary data with XML?

  • From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
  • To: xml-dev@i...
  • Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:52:17 -0500

python binary data
xml wrote:
> 
> Granted on other platforms it would be a problem to edit such files,
> but should file editing concerns dictate how efficiently data is
> stored?

YES! Completely. It is precisely ease of text editing on common platforms
that makes XML so popular. Otherwise XML could be completely binary and
much more compact.

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