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On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 17:19, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote: > > >DIME's encapsulating multiple pieces in a single message, and > >dealing with the complexity of mixing binary and textual > >content. That's more than I want, even though it's a nice > >step down from much of what's out there. At this point I just > >want to send XML - I'll even happily restrict it to UTF-16 XML > >and call it a day. > > FWIW, knowing the size (and maybe type) of various pieces is generally a > nice feature and even though you can do it in many ways, this seems to > be sort of the thing you want to keep simple. In at least some contexts, > simple is related to having the information up front in an easily > accessible manner similar to what DIME attempts to do. Sure - that's great design IF you want to send to send multiple pieces of various types. I was merely saying that I don't want to send multiple pieces of various types, and therefore don't need or want those facilities. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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