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• To: Liam Quin <liam@w...>
• Subject: Re: Re: Where does the "nothing left but toolkits" mythcome from?
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:59:05 -0500
• Cc: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>, XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
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Liam Quin wrote:

> characters and text.  But even a "plain US ASCII text file" is in fact
> in a binary format.

True for ASCII but not for XML. An XML document is not necessarily in a 
binary format, though in practice most (but not all) are. XML is defined 
in terms of characters, not bytes or bits. Non-binary representations of 
characters such as printed matter and analog encodings can encode 
well-formed XML documents. There's no rule that says the underlying 
encoding for XML must be binary. Who knows what sorts of computing 
devices we'll be using in a hundred years. Maybe they'll be quantum 
computers that use qubits instead of bits. Maybe something we haven't 
even thought of.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
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