Re: Book shouldn't say property values can be binary

C. Michael Pilato wrote:

> Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
>
>
>>On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 02:43, Julian Reschke wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Speaking of which -- how does Subversion marshall binary property values
>>>through WebDAV?
>>
>>We base64-encode them, I believe, so that they can be transferred as
>>CDATA through XML.
>
>
> Yep. You should see stuff like:
>
> <C:my-binary-prop encoding="base64">asdfadsf12341lklkjh2143lkj1hf23...
>
> in an ethereal trace.

OK. If and when Subversion starts to internally support datatypes (not
just binary/text) distinctions, I'd be interested on feedback on
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-property-datatypes-latest.html>.

Regards, Julian

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