+1
Elliotte Harold wrote:
>
> A. Pagaltzis wrote:
>
>> Why the zip? Atom is an envelope format that can transport binary
>> content.
>
>
> No, it isn't. An atom envelope can point to non-XML data binary data,
> but it cannot reasonably embed it. You could use an atomLink element to
> point to the binary data; then embed the whole file set in a zip file.
> Maybe that's all that really needed. However, you would need that extra
> level of packaging.
>
> I suppose you could base64 encode everything in a big atom:entry; but
> that's a lot of extra work for no particular point. It would essentially
> rule out using DOM to process this stuff, for example. Better to let
> MP3s, MPEGs, and other non-XML media to reside elsewhere and just let
> the XML point to it.
>
