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Title : A Base-85 Encoding Suitable for XML
Author(s) : P. Kwiatkowski
Filename : draft-kwiatkowski-base85-for-xml-01.txt
Pages : 13
Date : 2003-9-24
This memo proposes a base85 text encoding for arbitrary binary data
that is suitable for use in XML documents. This encoding requires
approximately 15/16 of the space of the MIME Base64 encoding that is
currently supported as a primitive datatype in the XML Schema
definition language. In a UTF-8 encoded XML entity, Base85 therefore
has 3/4 of the overhead of Base64.
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