- From: Kevin Mitchell <kevin.mitchell@xmls.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 14:03:24 GMT
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Current wording of DR119... Direct Handling of Binary Data: XML Namespaces provide a flexible and lightweight mechanism for handling language mixing as long as those languages are expressed in XML. In contrast, there is only very rudimentary support (base-64 encodings etc.) for including data languages expressed in binary formats. Such formats include commonly used image formats like PNG, JPEG etc. Although it is inconceivable to imagine a Web without such data formats, it is not considered a priority of this Working Group to solve this problem. This is in part because other organizations (e.g. ebXML and RosettaNet) are already addressing the issue using an approach based on MIME multipart. The Working Group can consider solutions proposed by other groups as a matter of low priority, if there is sufficient interest. Proposal... This text is taken directly from the charter. In other portions of the XP requirements document, charter language is not used for a numbered requirement. Instead, the text is italicized and placed at the beginning of the relevant section. I propose we do the same for DR119, thereby removing it as an explicit, numbered requirement.
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