Base64 encoding is fine for full binary data. The issue is for those
occasions where you have a string type that contains x0-x1F
occassionally.
Best regards
Michael
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 23:02 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] MSXML DOM Special Chars Less Than 32
>
> From: "John Cowan" <>
>
>
> > Tim Bray scripsit:
> >
> > > Doesn't base64 meet this requirement? -Tim
> >
> > No. That is a format for transmitting octets, not characters.
>
> But one of the use cases for base64 was to handle control characters!
> Certainly that was my expectation on the Schema WG.
>
> If base64 is broken in some way, it should be fixed up. The Core WG
> should raise this issue with the XML Schemas WG, if it feels that
base64
> is not usable.
>
> Are you saying that base64 should actually be (available) a lexical
facet
> on
> datatypes? That would seem to be a good approach. Or maybe to
> add Q-encoding to base64 and base16.
>
> Cheers
> Rick Jelliffe
>
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