• To: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Subject: Re: terra incognita
• From: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:08:11 +0000 (GMT)
• Cc: Alan Kent <ajk@m...>,The Deviants <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <E16Gk3j-0003SY-00@s...>

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:

> XML would no longer be XML if it allowed arbitrary binary data.

A fundamentally binary format, on the other hand, can happily contain
embedded *text* as UTF-8, as most ASN.1 encodings do :-)

ABS

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