- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:13:01 -0400
- To: DOM List <www-dom@w3.org>
Chandrasekhar R.S. wrote: > Hi > I have got a small query - Can we use binary data as values in the name value > pairs of XML files. No. Binary data may not appear anywhere in XML files, because it contains (what appear to be) forbidden character sequences. In addition, XML files may be converted to different encodings (certainly to UTF-8 and UTF-16, possibly to others depending on the receiving system), which would garble binary data. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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