Re: EBML data type constraints
Dave Rice <[email protected]>
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> On Jul 2, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Moritz Bunkus <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, > >> On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 14:37:38 +0200 > >> I agree. Though I'd lobby that strings with zero bytes are also >> discouraged this way. >> >> Maybe calling them "deprecated" is the right wording? > > No, empty strings must remain possible, especially for a general purpose > base format for containers (don't think of Matroska!). The situation is > different than the one for integers. You can express »empty« for an > integer with a one-byte value part, but you can only do the equivalent > for a string with a string of 0 bytes length. We must allow it. I agree (with allowing 0 length strings). Empty elements in XML are very common, I'd like to see the same as possible in Matroska. Dave _______________________________________________ Matroska-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.matroska.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/matroska-devel Read Matroska-Devel on GMane: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.multimedia.matroska.devel