Re: [xml] final output filtering?

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 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>

I'm not denying that :-)

I'm just opposing the statement that it would break on most platforms. 
In fact it would break on just a few :-)

Ciao,
Igor