- From: Oisin Hurley <ohurley@iona.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 22:33:40 -0000
- To: "David E. Cleary" <davec@progress.com>, <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
> I object to doing this in a non-normative fashion on the grounds that it > will render XP neutered for real world applications. ebXML, BizTalk, and > XForms all require this functionality and there is plenty of > prior work for > the WG to pick from, so there is no reason to not do this. DIRECT handling > of binary data is out of scope. INDIRECT handling of binary data is well > within the scope of our charter, and I do not believe XP will > ever reach rec > without this. Hi David, I made a suggestion in a previous mail about dumping these two requirements as they stand as they are covered by DR700, which is quite a serious catch-all for extensibility. In fact, when I drafted the requirement first, things like ebXML and BizTalk were on my mind. So I think it is covered in the general case, and it will be the job of the WG, once it can get its teeth into the solutions rather than requirements (the fun part) to make a distinction between different 'sorts' of application-specific content and how to deal with it. cheers --oh
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