- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:13:26 +0100
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>, <www-tag@w3.org>
On Friday, February 28, 2003, 8:09:06 PM, Dan wrote: DC> On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:57, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: >> My guess is that what Dan meant was that really long term persistence >> is the a bility of a librarian or computer scientist to figure out what >> a document meant long after the standards are gone. DC> Yes. >> XML, with its recurrent use of <> and its matching redundant >> use of a tag name at beginning and end of an element, makes this >> sort of rosetta stone task easier than for, say, a binary document. >> >> Similarly, if an XML document is corrupted in the middle you can >> make use of some of the rest. As long as you override the MIME type and don't treat it as XML, otherwise it is not well formed. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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