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A couple of weeks ago on this list, there was a thread that was lamenting the slow adoption of XML in the web community. It seems to me that one of the first problems programmers encounter is XML's inability to handle "binary" data. Once they hit that wall, they drop XML and move on to something else (usually a custom format). If we could turn back the clock to before 19980210 and get rid of design goal #3, handling binary data could have been so easily handled by adding one element attribute. If the XML spec had included one predefined attribute called "xml:length" binary data would have been a no-brainer to handle. Here's an example: <BINARY_DATA xml:length="4"><<<<</BINARY_DATA> It would take minutes to add this capability to existing parsers. Will XML 2.0 handle binary data? Is XML 2.0 on the drawing boards yet? Sam http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/sam_blackburn/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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