Re: [xml] Patch for base64Binary datatype.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:04:59PM -0400, Anthony Carrico wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:40:20PM +0100, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > Anthony Carrico wrote:
> > > +           Ignore all stray characters? (yes, currently)
> > > +           Worry about long lines? (no, currently)
>
> > I think the 'lines of at most 76 characters' part should be binned when
> > used inside xml - It doesn't look like a useful restriction and introduces
> > significant whitespace to documents that might otherwise not have it.
>
> Good, then you'll be happy with the status quo. I don't know how other
> implementers have interpreted the issue, but I think you are correct
> that the line length restriction doesn't make as much sense outside of
> the smtp/mime context.

  Your implementation passed all James Clark tests on this datatype
which sounds pretty good to me, though none of them have lines with
more than 60 characters.

Daniel

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