xmlrpclib and binary data as normal parameter strings
Richard Brodie
R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk
Tue Apr 19 09:03:07 EDT 2005
"Rune Froysa" <rune.froysa at usit.uio.no> wrote in message news:svlacnvhrov.fsf at dresden.uio.no...
> From http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec ::
> Any characters are allowed in a string except < and &, which are
> encoded as < and &. A string can be used to encode binary
> data.
the XMLRPC specification is worded pretty loosely. Obviously characters
forbidden in XML will be problematic.
> From http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml11-20040204/#dt-character ::
That's XML 1.1; it's very rarely used in practice. Can XMLRPC use XML 1.1?
In principle, undefined, as far as I know. In practice, not in Python anyway.
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