Re: [Json] Consensus on JSON-text (WAS: JSON: remove gap between Ecma-404 and IETF draft) from Phillip Hallam-Baker on 2013-12-02 (www-tag@w3.org from December 2013)

From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 18:58:30 -0500
To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
Cc: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, IETF Discussion <ietf@ietf.org>, JSON WG <json@ietf.org>, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>, "Matt Miller (mamille2)" <mamille2@cisco.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>
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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Ashok Malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>wrote:

>
> On 12/2/2013 4:30 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>
>> XML does not support binary encoding of cryptographic data or floating
>> point.
>>
> XML Schema supports hexBinary and base64binary datatypes.
> It also supports float and double datatypes.
>
> All the best, Ashok
>

Those are text encodings of binary data. They are not a binary encoding.
XML is a text encoding, not a binary encoding.

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