Re: [xml-dev] Why you should avoid Notation Declarations (by Kohsuke

• To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@...>
• Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Why you should avoid Notation Declarations (by Kohsuke
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:53:48 -0500
• Cc: Razvan MIHAIU <mihaiu@...>, xml-dev@...
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Henry S. Thompson wrote:


> You have a place in your XML document type for (e.g. hex-encoded)
> BLOBs to be included or referenced.  Each BLOB in turn should be an
> encoding of something using one of a delimited set of more-or-less
> standard encodings.  You want to allow or require document authors to
> signal which encoding they're using.

How do notations improve on, for example, <data mime:type="image/jpeg" 
href="somefile.jpg"/>? Normally I like additional layers of indirection, 
but the NOTATION indirection has never seemed all that useful. What am I 
missing?

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@...
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