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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:44:55 -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...> wrote: > There is no guarantee that the binary formats exported by one process make > sense ton the next, even on the same architecture. I'm confident I can > make sense out of XML on both ends. I'm not so sure about binary formats. In my mind, "binary" is a bit of a misnomer and red herring. The issue is Infoset serializations that are optimized for something or other ... parsing speed, compactness, authorability, etc. etc. etc. How they handle non-text data (in a native binary format, in a compressed text format, or in a more compact markup format than XML's) is an open question.
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