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Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> You have a place in your XML document type for (e.g. hex-encoded)
> BLOBs to be included or referenced. Each BLOB in turn should be an
> encoding of something using one of a delimited set of more-or-less
> standard encodings. You want to allow or require document authors to
> signal which encoding they're using.
How do notations improve on, for example, <data mime:type="image/jpeg"
href="somefile.jpg"/>? Normally I like additional layers of indirection,
but the NOTATION indirection has never seemed all that useful. What am I
missing?
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Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu
XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/
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