XML Re: [sldev] Opening the server source?

[dirk husemann]

dale at daleglass.net wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 06:48:22AM -0700, Dzonatas wrote:
>   
> [...]
> The nice thing about XML is that it's extensible -- it takes serious
> work to design such a format that you can add something extra without
> breaking backwards compatibility.
>   
didn't certain encodings of ASN.1 support skipping over unknown types?

    cheers,
    dirk

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dr dirk husemann, pervasive computing, ibm zurich research lab
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