> I think a diagnostic that says the term can't be rendered as XML.

Except we can't do that either, as we don't have a space for term
surrogate diagnostics.

We could have a diagnostic saying that some terms have been omitted
though.

> The other choice is to support an alternative transfer of terms as byte
> arrays.  :-(

Base64 encoded with some sort of marker?


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