Re: GConf and bonobo-conf

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth ireland sun com>]

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>Subject: Re: GConf and bonobo-conf
>From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>
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>> XML allows you to store binary data, but then it ceases to be what
>> everyone expects XML to be (self-describing metadata-rich data).
>> Storing an encoded IIOP value in XML using a non-standard encoding
>> would not make your data available to apps that expect you to use
>> XML as it was intended.
>
>We are not talking about storing an IIOP stream into the XML.
>
>I might have mentioned this in the past as a `quick hack' to get the
>data actually stored.  In practice we did something else.

Great! What did you do?

Colm.

>Now, right now I am feeling like we should change our
>CORBA_any-to-string mapper to just dump a SOAP-compatible encoding of
>the data (for instance, to reuse the same code for our SOAP engine).
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>Miguel.
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