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On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Tony Graham <tgraham@m...> wrote: >> >> On Fri, November 15, 2013 3:57 pm, Uche Ogbuji wrote: >> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:46 AM, David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...> >> > wrote: >> ... >> > And no, I do not believe that text technologies are right for >> > transmitting >> > either null-terminated strings or BLOBs. Why not? Because they're not >> >> Yet you'd have no trouble attaching either a graphic or a Zip file to an >> email message. > > > I certainly do not believe that RFC 1521 is the right solution to the > limitations of RFC 822. I don't think I ever said that in every computer > technology *I* employ as a user, the right architectures are used > throughout. > > >> >> > designed for it. You can start learning how so by trying to put a >> > null-terminated string into XML. >> > >> >> If I decided to use null-terminated strings to transmit a binary blob, >> >> would it be a "C WTF"? >> > >> > Of course not, because C is designed for that. >> >> Terrible things would happen with the C if there was a null character in >> the binary blob. > > > I see, I did gloss over that. I should have known the original question was > useless. C stdlib also provides the strn* functions and the mem* so in no > case is it a C WTF. C is indeed designed to transmit binary blobs. The choice to represent a binary blob as a null-terminated string is analogous to the choice to represent the null value with the string "null" in the position of a text node that would otherwise represent text. As you previously claimed that this practice was an "XML WTF", you must now concede that misrepresenting a binary blob as a null-terminated string would be a "C WTF". Do you retract your assertion that the SO issue is an "XML WTF"? Do you find fault with my logic? Here is an argument for retraction: XML supports element omission which does not convey an actual element. An omitted element could be mapped to a null value so in no case is it an XML WTF. XML is indeed designed to transmit elements. > > -- > Uche Ogbuji http://uche.ogbuji.net > Founding Partner, Zepheira http://zepheira.com > Author, Ndewo, Colorado http://uche.ogbuji.net/ndewo/ > Founding editor, Kin Poetry Journal http://wearekin.org > Editor & Contributor, TNB > http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/uogbuji/ > http://copia.ogbuji.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji > http://twitter.com/uogbuji
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