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Alessandro Triglia wrote: > True, with XML 1.0 you can use any Unicode viewer (or any EBCDIC viewer, or > any SHIFT_JIS viewer, or any xyz viewer, etc., depending on the > circumstances) -- you don't have to use a specific program like the MS XML > 1.0 viewer that is built into IE. But still, if FI viewers became > ubiquitous, what would be the fundamental reason for concluding that FI does > not comply with the "view source" paradigm? In the short term (by which I means a few years, maybe even a few decades) there's probably not a lot of difference. In the long term, i.e. centuries or more, the difference might become significant. Many of the NOT XML formats are much harder to decode without pre-existing knowledge of the format or even the specific schemas used to encode the information. Whether this is true of the FI version of NOT XML or not, I don't know. The real question is whether the full information content of the document is present in each instance. The level of redundancy also matters. Compression is the enemy of robustness. -- 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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