Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
> If you start allowing > control characters (which are somewhat debatable *as* characters in the > first place), it becomes very easy to abuse the power and to have > application-specific uses of embedded encodings. This is effectively what > Mr. Rhys from MS wanted: the ability to store arbitrary binary streams > inside XML encoded data. > The problem is that XML is *text*. It is made from *characters*, and > arbitrary binary strings have no place in it. Once you change that, you > have essentially ruined XML as a textual markup language. This argument seems to apply equally against Base64 encoding as it does against control characters. I think of XML not as a textual markup language, but rather as a layer over which markup languages can be defined. Why is it the job of XML to prevent characters that are not appropriate for some classes of markup languages? Jim --------------------------- Jim Theriot mailto:Jim.Theriot@p... POSC -- Energy eStandards 9801 Westheimer, Suite 450 Houston TX USA 77042 +1 713 267 5109 : phone +1 713 784 9219 : fax ---------------------------
|
