Re: WOFF and extended metadata

Laurence Penney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fonts
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 21 Jun 2010, at 19:36, Chris Lilley <[email protected]> wrote:

> LP> Should the value be entity-encoded or not?
>
> Why on earth would you want to entiry encode it (or base-64 encode  
> it, or whatever other obfuscation) when it could be included directly?

For the sake of a guaranteed, predictably simple document structure.

One danger: What if the included unencoded XML uses elements already  
used in the metadata? Some clients would barf on the unexpected  
attributes and content of those elements.

It seems I'm in a minority, possibly of one, on this issue of  
sandboxing the content...

- L
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