- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:40:59 +0900
- To: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Cc: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>, discuss@apps.ietf.org
At 09:14 99/02/20 -0800, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> At 12:36 PM 2/20/99 +0100, Jacob Palme wrote:
> >I have looked at the XML specs, and not found any good way
> >of putting binary data into XML either. Have I missed
> >something?
>
> Only the embarrassed groans of many people in the XML community. :-)
XML is a text format. As such, it can be transcoded by mail gateways.
If you label something as
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=us-ascii
and it gets transcoded to EBCDIC, the binary data won't survive.
The web can easily include binary data, it's done all the time
with images, just use a link instead of putting things inline :-).
Regards, Martin.
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Received on Sunday, 21 February 1999 16:35:05 UTC