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RE: "Binary XML" proposals



> Interesting RFC.  they also find they 
> have to cope with mixed models by altering 
> the structure (the text tag).

"method 02 for the wonderful "deflate" algorithm which comes from the
"zip"-people."

 - it's the new All Your Base! The invasion of the
zip-people!

(sorry, couldn't resist. Back to reality...)

The idea is sound, but including compression and encryption *within* the
data files is questionable; there is a justifiable (but also
attackable) argument for putting encryption and compression at the
transport level, rather than the encoding level.

Also, chunks are given numeric IDs, rather than human readable names; this
means that uses of the format aren't particularly meaningful without
external documentation stating the allocation of numeric IDs.

Hmmm...

ABS

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