Re: [xml] final output filtering?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:57:06AM +0200, Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   the 'b' extension is a pure Microsoftism ... that would break on
> > most platforms !
>
> There I must oppose :-)

<rant>
 It's new, it wasn't the case some time ago. It is a Microsoftism
because guess what platform found useful to define that files could
have content X or Y depending on how you looked at them. Sorry it's
crap that had been backported in the standard, still it's crap and we
know where this comes from.
 A stream of bytes is a stream of bytes... you have a collection of
0 and 1 on the disk platter and you get a different one when reading,
Microsoft is to OSes design what MacDo is to cooking art.
</rant>

Daniel

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