A. Pagaltzis wrote:
Why the zip? Atom is an envelope format that can transport binary
content.
No, it isn't. An atom envelope can point to non-XML data binary data,
but it cannot reasonably embed it. You could use an atomLink element to
point to the binary data; then embed the whole file set in a zip file.
Maybe that's all that really needed. However, you would need that extra
level of packaging.
I suppose you could base64 encode everything in a big atom:entry; but
that's a lot of extra work for no particular point. It would essentially
rule out using DOM to process this stuff, for example. Better to let
MP3s, MPEGs, and other non-XML media to reside elsewhere and just let
the XML point to it.
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