• To: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• Subject: Re: terra incognita
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:21:56 -0500
• Cc: Alan Kent <ajk@m...>,The Deviants <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0112191707500.8145-100000@l...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Wednesday 19 December 2001 12:08 pm, Al Snell wrote:
> 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 :-)

FWIW. I quite like ASN.1... and it's probably a lot more applicable than XML 
for some of these things.

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