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Re: Control characters in log message cause failure

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke_at_gmx.de>
Date: 2004-12-01 21:50:12 CET

John Peacock wrote:
> kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>
>> So XML CDATA cannot represent arbitrary strings of bytes, by using
>> escaping?
>
>
> Nope. You can represent arbitrary strings of bytes using _encoding_:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/
>
> e.g. hexBinary (3.2.15) or base64Binary (3.2.16).
>
> But XML is not intended to be a generalized file format for
> non-character data...

Please do not confuse layers. XSD (XML Schema) is something defined *on
top* of XML 1.0. Standard XML 1.0 recipients will see a string of
BASE64, not binary data.

Best regards, Julian

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