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RE: "Binary XML" proposals
- From: Al Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
- To: "Timothy J. Luoma" <tjlists@bigfoot.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:14:30 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
> If I have an image file or a .zip file that reports itself to be corrupted, I'm
> in trouble.
Yet if the images or archives used a standard binary encoding (which XML
*could* become), then it would be a different issue.
Just as XML encoding instead of random proprietary encodings means you
don't need to learn RTF (which is pretty impenetrable) to fix documents,
nor Word .DOC files, etc.
> TjL
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