[Xml-bin] Some central design issues

[Peter Jacobi]

> <xmlbin:binary>...base64...</xmlbin:binary>
> 
> This would be needed to be able to round trip binXML through
> textXML... otherwise the binary bits would come out as base64 strings
> after going through XML :-(

bXML 
[{tag="Foo"}{type=binary}{length=123}] ... 123 bytes of binary data here

=>
tXML

<Foo 
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:type="base64Binary"
> ... base64 encoded data goes here ...
</Foo>

You can and should use the xsi:type attribute without actually using a 
schema. There still must be a mechanism implemented for attributes.

Regards,
Peter