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Re: MSXML DOM Special Chars Less Than 32

• To: tbray@t... (Tim Bray)
• Subject: Re: MSXML DOM Special Chars Less Than 32
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:40:45 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20020322100018.023f5ec0@p...> from "Tim Bray" at Mar 22, 2002 10:13:08 AM

Tim Bray scripsit:

> If you need to interchange binary data (and we all do) that's fine, 
> but don't claim doing so is interoperable and don't try to dress
> it up in XML clothes unless you're willing to base64 it or otherwise
> clearly mark it as an opaque blob.

The issue isn't binary data (IEEE floats, or 32-bit BE integers, or such);
it's character data.  Some characters have poorly defined semantics, yes;
but they are characters nevertheless.  If such things are very rare,
then Quoted-Printable works well.

-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@r...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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