[Bug 8879] New: Requirement: Binary Serialization Method

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8879

           Summary: Requirement: Binary Serialization Method
           Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
           Version: Working drafts
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Requirements for Future Versions
        AssignedTo: jim.melton@acm.org
        ReportedBy: jim.melton@acm.org
         QAContact: public-qt-comments@w3.org


(This requirement is entered on behalf of Florent Georges
<fgeorges@fgeorges.org>)

  I wonder if it would not be beneficial to define a binary output method in
XSLT and XQuery Serialization 1.1 (or rather both methods hex and base64).  It
would be defined in a way similar to the text method, but requiring the string
value to be a valid lexical hexBinary or base64Binary.

  XML databases have binary types, and some popular extensions produce binary
"things".  For instance, in EXPath the modules to create ZIP files or the
module to perform HTTP requests, which use the serialization spec in a way
consistent with the new fn:serialize(), but add binary support.

  Such new methods would give all of them a standard, common way to describe
binary serialization.


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Received on Thursday, 4 February 2010 18:20:07 UTC