MIME/XML - Battle of the Uppercased Data Formats

[Stephen D. Williams]

Frank D. Greco wrote:

>  >From: "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@lig.net>
> 
>  >I like MIME, but insisting that it's the only way to package things is
>  >myopic and inelegant.
> 
>     You can make the same argument against XML also...


Sure, so when I compare:

XML/XML to XML/MIME

using Occam's Razor, I feel XML/XML will buy me some simplification and 
uniformity that will tend to be a design and implementation win.  In 
both theory and practice.

This is definitely true when you're talking about XML payloads.  Not so 
clear when you're talking about images, video, etc.  Of course, most of 
that objection is efficiency in avoiding binary encoding and that can be 
alleviated with Binary Structured XML.  I'm working on this last idea, 
occasionally.

sdw



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