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The idea is to allow presentation data to be included inside of general data, and also to allow presentation data to contain any kind of general data (not just string keys and string values). At some point in the distant future, it would also be nice to have official numeric tag assignments in schemas (e.g. 1 = "View", 2 = "TextBox", etc) to further improve processing by eliminating the need for text parsing just to decide what kind of object to present. These would be transparently converted from the text-based names in the human-readable text format when converting to the machine-read binary format.

The overarching purpose of Concise Encoding is to bring forth the tools to make transmitted data accessible to humans, and at the same time efficient to process by machines.



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