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- To: Anil Philip <goodnewsforyou@yahoo.com>, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>, 'xml dev' <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
- Subject: RE: [xml-dev] basic qs - how is xml more flexible for exchanging data?
- From: Tech Rams <techmailing@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:05:35 -0700 (PDT)
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I think Michael's point was precisely about binary
data - no one has issues with text/ascii data
(mostly).
How can you guarantee that who ever is receiving the
data (and whenever) will be able to reconstruct the
structure you have, given Michael's points?
-rams
--- Anil Philip <goodnewsforyou@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I dont think you understood the post - I meant when
> one transfers binary data (in a file or stream). I
> am
> not referring to C compilers and it's not about
> metadata or validation. Where are you now?
>
> --- Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
>
> > Two C compilers on different architectures would
> > represent that structure
> > quite differently. There's no data interchange
> there
> > at all except between
> > identical machines with identical compilers
> running
> > identical applications;
> > there's no scope for attaching metadata to the
> > message; there's no scope for
> > validation... Where have you been all these years?
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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