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Re: [xml-dev] terra incognita

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To: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] terra incognita
From: Al Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:08:11 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: Alan Kent <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au>,The Deviants <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
In-reply-to: <E16Gk3j-0003SY-00@server2000.ebizhostingsolutions.com>

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:

> XML would no longer be XML if it allowed arbitrary binary data.

A fundamentally binary format, on the other hand, can happily contain
embedded *text* as UTF-8, as most ASN.1 encodings do :-)

ABS

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