RE: Possibility of an XML Document Type

In many cases images are much bigger than the associated XML document, and
you might not want to base64-encode them (processing time and resulting
size). 

Also, small devices that do not accept images and only deal with text would
not need to implement a processor to handle MIME multipart/related or
whatever other mechanism is used for attachments.

Ugo

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Salz [mailto:rsalz@zolera.com]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 6:18 AM
To: Corda, Ugo
Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Subject: Re: Possibility of an XML Document Type


> Yes, but I would prefer to reserve that for cases when it's really
> necessary, e.g. when the main XML document has image attachments.

I don't understand why images are "really necessary" and XML isn't, can
you please explain?

In general, I prefer attachments because the parsing is more efficient
-- I don't have to create an entire string only to (quickly?:) replace
it with an XML document.

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