- From: Michael Brennan <Michael_Brennan@Allegis.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:44:50 -0700
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
> From: cagle@olywa.net [mailto:cagle@olywa.net] > [...] > Yeah, that's a definite benefit I see as well. While we're at it, this > brings us back to the whole issue of MIME, and the > complexities that MIME > introduces. I can see with a SOAP message the ability to not > only carry > relevant MIME data (as a CDATA section, for instance) but > also to provide > meta-tag information in the form of RDF blocks that could be > easily queried > from an XML parser. Interestingly, though, SOAP (and similar efforts, such as ebXML) seem to be moving in the opposite direction -- i.e. embracing MIME as a mechanism for sending "attachments" with XML messages, rather than embedding them in XML as base64 encoded CDATA. The attachments are referenced via content-id URLs.
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