Re: [xml-dev] The illusion of simplicity and low cost in datadesign and

["C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>]

Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au> writes:

> XML provided the first (headers, doctyoe, namespaces, etc) but kinda
> fails to provide the second (standard inline conventions to introduce
> embedded notations). Which is why it struggles whenever it has to
> contain non-xml data inside: hence see ludicrous approaches like
> requiring an external schema to say some element value is bin64.

Isn't that what NOTATION declarations are designed to do (and in fact
do, when people use them)?

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