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RE: Binary XML

• From: Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@A...>
• To: "'Arnold, Curt'" <Curt.Arnold@h...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:46:35 -0700

> From: Arnold, Curt [mailto:Curt.Arnold@h...]
> [...]
> Basically, my idea when I proposed it was that in the event
> that a binary stream was not recognized as any supported
> encoding family, then the application should have a chance to
> see if it recognizes
> it as a compressed or encrypted stream and would be able to
> wrap the input stream from URL resolution with a
> decompression/decryption wrapper before trying encoding
> detection again.

If this input stream is resolved from a URL, wouldn't it be better to handle
this at the transport layer rather than in the parser? One should be able to
determine the compression used from the "Content-Encoding" header. Or is the
intent to be very forgiving of instances where the headers do not adequately
convey the correct information?

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