- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:20:44 +0100
- To: "John J. Barton" <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com>
- CC: Ray Whitmer <rayw@netscape.com>, Don Box <dbox@microsoft.com>, xml-dist-app@w3.org
John J. Barton wrote: > If I am an application writer and I am writing code to traverse > through the > data structure returned by parsing XML, then I will encounter some > references to non-XML data. Surely this must be true! It happens for > HTML all the time, with references to GIF and JPEG. I don't know how XML's > open nature could be violated by referencing non-XML data. And if the > tools > cannot handle references to binary then what are they good for? > > We should have a standard that allows a sender to combine XML with some > non-XML data in a way that a receiver can parse the XML and access the > non-XML data. It shouldn't matter if the XML is SOAP or not. It's not exactly efficient but you always have data: URIs. SVG uses them when one desires to bundle all content together. -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr> Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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