[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Why you should avoid Notation Declarations (by Kohsuke
Henry S. Thompson wrote: > You have a place in your XML document type for (e.g. hex-encoded) > BLOBs to be included or referenced. Each BLOB in turn should be an > encoding of something using one of a delimited set of more-or-less > standard encodings. You want to allow or require document authors to > signal which encoding they're using. How do notations improve on, for example, <data mime:type="image/jpeg" href="somefile.jpg"/>? Normally I like additional layers of indirection, but the NOTATION indirection has never seemed all that useful. What am I missing? -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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