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Hi; I don't agree with the idea that XML is a replacement for ASCII. ASCII is just one means of encoding character data; EBCDIC and Unicode are others (encoding in the sense of assigning a code to a character glyph). To me, "text" does not imply the underlying represtentation/encoding. In fact, although XML is based on Unicode, there are no technical reasons that I know of why XML could not be represtented in EBCDIC or ASCII (aside from standard compliance). Neither does "application" imply C, C++, Java or whatever else. In fact, I wonder if "application/xml" is appropriate at all - does "application/RTF" or "application/TROFF" make sense? Sincerely, Dave LeBlanc At 01:08 PM 1/14/99 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: <snip> >I don't expect the IETF to change this anytime soon, but it does seem like >something that could stand improvement. XML isn't really a text format - >Tim Bray used to say, it's a replacement for ASCII. I'm inclined to agree >with him here, and think that maybe XML deserves to be placed on the same >footing as ASCII, not underneath it. > >Simon St.Laurent >XML: A Primer / Cookies >Sharing Bandwidth >Building XML Applications (March) >http://www.simonstl.com > 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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