• To: XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Typing and paranoia
• From: "W. E. Perry" <wperry@f...>
• Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:50:10 -0500
• Organization: Fiduciary Automation
• References: <3DEF8BFF.4030100@t...>

Tim Bray wrote:

> What really scares me is the recurring theme that we ought to re-frame XML
> as a data model and treat the syntax as just one
> serialization.  That makes me seriously paranoid - if somebody promises me
> XML, I want a stream of unicode characters with angle-brackets, not some
> fragile opaque binary kludge which is advertised as having infoset
> semantics.

Granted. With rejoicing. Now how do we insure that we will get it? And not
just now, but for as long as our documents might have some use to someone?

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