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Re: XML-formatted data or XML-encoded data?

• From: Michael Sokolov <msokolov@safaribooksonline.com>
• To: Jim Melton <jim.melton@oracle.com>, "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:15:54 -0500

Roger,

When I need to express this kind of sentiment, I word it as "The data marked up in XML...". To me, formatting is a process that makes something attractive (relatively speaking, of course), closely related to rendering. Encoding is, to me, a way of representing characters in some binary scheme (e.g., Unicode UTF-8).

I recognize that neither of my definitions are universally accepted.

Hope this helps,
Jim

At 2015-01-20 09:51, Costello, Roger L. wrote:

Hi Folks,

Which of these is correct:

    (1) The XML-formatted data is ...

    (2) The XML-encoded data is ...

    (3) Something else (what?)

Thanks!

/Roger

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  • XML-formatted data or XML-encoded data?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: XML-formatted data or XML-encoded data?
    • From: Jim Melton <jim.melton@oracle.com>