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Re: Finishing the XML-tagging discussion

2000-03-21 00:59:57
At 00/03/20 22:06 -0800, ned(_dot_)freed(_at_)innosoft(_dot_)com wrote:
> now you're moving from the realm of specifying 'features' or
> 'default handling' of the object into specifying layered encodings.
> and this was something that we were very unwilling to do when
> we defined MIME.  The feeling was that having an arbitrary
> number of cascaded encodings was likely to be detrimental to
> interoperability.

I thought this too until I realized these were simply strawman names in
Martin's example.

Exactly. Sorry for not having been clear enough.

Regards,   Martin.