NDATA section (was: RE: [xml-dev] CDATA)

Mmmhh... very interesting.  Then I picture the NDATA section something like
this:

<?xml version="2.0"?>
<root>
  <![CDATA[ text ]]>
  <xml:NDATA length="12" dimensional="b">|°¬~*%_@¨¨\´#á!¬^¡?</xml:NDATA>
  <!-- The length would be in bits(b), bytes(B), kilo bytes(KB), etc. -->
</root>

Best!

-Sergio

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Waclawek
To: 
Sent: 2/04/2003 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] CDATA


> Maybe the requirement is to support NDATA.  I get a lot 
> of inquiries about stuffing jpegs, etc, inline.  When 
> I show them the limited means, I get frowns.  Perhaps 
> it is time to revisit that permathread.

One could prefix such an NDATA section with a length tag,
allowing the parser to simply ignore the next "length" bytes.
That essentially takes the NDATA section out of XML land.
Only drawback: regular text editors have problems with binary data.

Karl

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