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I'm already taking a look at it, but it doesn't completely address what I'm getting at. I may be able to branch from it. sdw Peter Stark wrote: > Not only "attempts to define". > > The "binary XML" defined by the WAP Forum is a format for tokenized XML. > It's supported by cellular phones with WAP browsers, e.g. > http://www.nokia.com/phones/7110/index.html. Element and attribute names are > replaced by binary values to make parsing cheaper in the client. It does, > however, not support all XML features. For example, XML namespaces are not > supported. > > You can read more about WAP at: > http://www.uplanet.com/pub/111398_WAP_V1whitepaper.pdf > > Peter Stark > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of > > Dan Brickley > > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 12:54 PM > > To: 'xml-dev@i...' > > Subject: RE: Is there anyone working on a binary version of XML? > > > > > > > > On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, DuCharme, Robert wrote: > > > > > >I know, I know, this is anathema to what many of you feel is the > > > >essence of XML, and I agree to a point. > > > > > > It's not so much about feelings, as about contradicting the XML spec. > > > > Quite so. But there are still initiatives such as > > > http://www.wapforum.org/docs/technical.htm > http://www.wapforum.org/docs/technical1.1/WBXML-03-Feb-1999.pdf > > which attempts to define a 'compact binary representation of XML'. > (If going down that route, I'd rather have a compact binary > representation of whatever it was that I'm representing in XML, rather > than of the XML that I might've used as a textual representation of the > data... But then that really wouldn't be XML.) > > Dan > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN > 981-02-3594-1 > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following > message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) -- OptimaLogic - Finding Optimal Solutions Web/Crypto/OO/Unix/Comm/Video/DBMS sdw@l... Stephen D. Williams Senior Consultant/Architect http://sdw.st 43392 Wayside Cir,Ashburn,VA 20147-4622 703-724-0118W 703-995-0407Fax 5Jan1999 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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