- From: Paul Kulchenko <paulclinger@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 19:37:04 -0800 (PST)
- To: "John J. Barton" <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com>, Ray Whitmer <rayw@netscape.com>
- Cc: Don Box <dbox@microsoft.com>, xml-dist-app@w3.org
Hi John, --- "John J. Barton" <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com> wrote: > 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. Don't we have enough standards already? Binary data can be linked in many ways: 1. external: xlink, hrefs, XInclude, other? 2. internal: base64, hex, data: URIs 3. packaged: MIME, DIME, zip, whatever It's not reasonable to expect we can come up with one standard that will satisfy all conflicting requirements people have: size, efficiency, random access, streaming, chunking, parser transparency, DOM-compatibility, ability to apply filters, security, compression, you name it. IMHO it's clear that more than one way to do it is needed. Which one is best for you depends on what you want to do. Best wishes, Paul. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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