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

• From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: Jim Melton <jim.melton@oracle.com>
• Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:40:25 +0000

Being as XML is a protocol at layer 6 of the OSI model, we could legitimately call it "XML-presented data"...

Michael Kay
Saxonica
mike@saxonica.com
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On 20 Jan 2015, at 18:45, Jim Melton <jim.melton@oracle.com> wrote:

> 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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• References:
  • 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>