[vorbis-dev] XML Format Suggestion

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 01:47:23AM -0400, Aaron King wrote:
> Well why don't we have a property something like:
> 
> <ogg>
> 	<author>Tom Petty</author>
> 	<title>Free Fallen</title>
> 	<size>2435b</size>
> 	<oggaudio1.1>binary info until the 2435th byte</oggaudio1.1>
> </ogg>
> 
> Would this solve the problem?

No.
XML is for text data.

In binary ogg data, there could be many characters like < or &.
What then ?
No real XML parser will accept this, so this won't be true XML.

You could base64 or someway other embed binary in XML,
adding 10-20% to size, but we don't want it, do we ?

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