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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, W. E. Perry wrote: [...] > expected form of data. Through internetworking those nodes may be able for the > first time to exchange data, but the expected form or 'meaning'--let alone the > proper uses--of that data may have nothing in common between the two. When that > data is exchanged as XML text, with the fundamental expectation that it will be > parsed afresh and then processed at each node in an environment and for purposes > which are unique to that node, it is possible for the first time to execute > distributed processing between utterly dissimilar parties. But the binary format should be semantically identical to the text one, so it's just a matter of different code to handle it - there's no change in the fundamental communication of information, just it's a neater and more lightweight mechanism. > That new and unique benefit of the XML intellectual commons is the > first thing lost to any canonical, let alone binary, representation of > meaning. I didn't say it would be canonical, either - the conclusion that namespace prefixes have to be preserved alone precludes that :-) But I disagree with what I think your general thrust is. A canonical encoding of XML shouldn't be a bad thing, surely? The XML spec states that whitespace in certain places and all that are irrelevant. Do you think this is unwise of them? > Walter Perry ABS -- Alaric B. Snell http://www.alaric-snell.com/ http://RFC.net/ http://www.warhead.org.uk/ Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software
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