[MOBY-l] rules for passing "foreign" stuff with MOBY

[mwilkinson at gene.pbi.nrc.ca]

Hi all,

I'm pondering the problem of passing "foreign" stuff with MOBY.  In
principle, we can be passing anything from Text to images to sound
files, to XML-objects from other model systems.  In principle we could
pass text/XML as CDATA, and binaries as base64-encoded, or we could
simply base64 encode *everything* that was not a "true" MOBY object.

I prefer the latter just for the sake of simplicity... having all
foreign objects passed in the same way would make client design a little
bit easier.

Other opinions?  Is there any reason to favour one over the other?

M


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