Re: Precise Definition for Interoperability Needed (Was RE: [Minu tes] 6-7 Feb 2003 TAG ftf meeting (why XML))

On Friday, February 28, 2003, 8:09:06 PM, Dan wrote:

DC> On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:57, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>> My guess is that what Dan meant was that really long term persistence
>> is the a bility of a librarian or computer scientist to figure out what
>> a document meant long after the standards are gone.

DC> Yes.

>> XML, with its recurrent use of <> and its matching redundant
>> use of a tag name at beginning and end of an element, makes this
>> sort of rosetta stone task easier than for, say, a binary document.
>> 
>> Similarly, if an XML document is corrupted in the middle you can
>> make use of some of the rest.

As long as you override the MIME type and don't treat it as XML,
otherwise it is not well formed.




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