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Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376

2000-03-15 08:55:25
At 03:26 PM 3/15/00 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote:
But that is, after all, the point of the -xml suffix? To flag that the
content is encoded in XML, so thatany processor which feels like fiddling
with the bytes therin can judge whether it is competent to do so?

C'mon Chris, catch up on the back correspondence.  Several credible
use-cases for the -xml thing have been introduced into the dialogue; this
doesn't mean that everyone is happy with it as a syntactic device.  -Tim