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  • From: "John.Cowan" <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>
  • To: Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com>
  • Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Is XML Text or CDATA that includes the zerocharacter legal?
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:10:21 -0400

Michael Kay scripsit:

> And many other
> nice properties would have been achieved at the same time, in particular the
> ability to encode an arbitrary octet stream without resorting to nonsense
> like base64 encoding.

Speaking for myself and not the Core WG, I consider that a dysproperty.
Random
binary trash should not just be stuffed unthinkingly into XML documents.

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