Re: [xml-dev] XML-formatted data or XML-encoded data?
From: Jim Melton <jim.melton@oracle.com>
To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:45:49 -0700
Roger,
When I need to express this kind of sentiment, I word it as "The data
marked up in XML...". To me, formatting is a process that makes
something attractive (relatively speaking, of course), closely
related to rendering. Encoding is, to me, a way of representing
characters in some binary scheme (e.g., Unicode UTF-8).
I recognize that neither of my definitions are universally accepted.
Hope this helps,
Jim
At 2015-01-20 09:51, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
Hi Folks,
Which of these is correct:
(1) The XML-formatted data is ...
(2) The XML-encoded data is ...
(3) Something else (what?)
Thanks!
/Roger
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