[vorbis] Desirable Properties of a Real Metadata Format

[John Morton]

On Friday 17 October 2003 18:54, you wrote:
>  > I suggest gzipped XML. Feel free to suggest something that isn't XML if
>  > you dislike it that much.
>
>  You cannot use XML for streamable metadata, at least not without
>  changing what you mean by XML.  I wish people would please stop bringing
>  this up.

No one has said it had to be streamable. Even if it isn't, how likely is it 
that stream creators are going to want to pack so much metadata into streams 
that it matters whether you wait for the whole metadata section or not.

John
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