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Liam Quin wrote: > characters and text. But even a "plain US ASCII text file" is in fact > in a binary format. True for ASCII but not for XML. An XML document is not necessarily in a binary format, though in practice most (but not all) are. XML is defined in terms of characters, not bytes or bits. Non-binary representations of characters such as printed matter and analog encodings can encode well-formed XML documents. There's no rule that says the underlying encoding for XML must be binary. Who knows what sorts of computing devices we'll be using in a hundred years. Maybe they'll be quantum computers that use qubits instead of bits. Maybe something we haven't even thought of. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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