On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Tobias Markmann wrote:
There are already several binary-to-text encodings which perform a
bit
better than Base64, two of them are:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII85 invented by Adobe
2. http://base91.sourceforge.net/
Both of those seem to allow < and &, which make them less than ideal
for embedding in XML.
"XMPP is not XML" :-)))
No. But just because a is not b does not imply that b is not a. XMPP
is a /subset/ of XML: all XML is not valid XMPP, but all XMPP is (or
should be) valid XML when the session is taken as a document. :)
Both from a design standpoint, and a practical standpoint (re-using
existing XML parsers for XMPP is easy given that XMPP obeys a subset
of the XML rules). So one would think that < and & are still equally
important not to have appearing raw in an XMPP stream.
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