• From: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• To: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:16:16 +0100 (BST)

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Ronald Bourret wrote:

> > choices for recipients, to be made with consideration for how much they
> > have to gain or lose by dealing with authorial intention.
>
> Isn't that one of the points of XML? The recipient can process the data
> as they like.

All data formats have this property unless they attempt to include some
kind of encryption or other obfuscation technique, in which case, the
recipient can do whatever they like once somebody's cracked it (DeCSS
comes to mind :-)

>
> -- Ron
>

ABS

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