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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Tim Bray wrote: > would that speed up the whole application? You'd need to know > what proportion of its time it spends parsing/generating XML. In > some apps, this proportion is going to be very small. Yep, but if in even 1% of apps it would make a welcome or necessary difference, then it's worth it. That's a lot of apps. > As for the data storage volume issue, uh, isn't the world awash > in admirable compression technology that works pretty well on > most data formats, and particularly well on redundant textual > stuff like XML? It'll work even better on a tighter binary format. Less compression ratio, but the amount of information in a binary-XML file is less than the amount of information in a text-XML file. And there isn't always the software and processor time / memory buffers available for data compression engines. > Absent some good strong empirical evidence, neither processing > nor storage cost are a priori arguments for going binary. Simplicity? Parsing XML is a complex task, meaning writing parsers is harder than it would be for a binary format. > > -Tim > ABS -- http://www.alaric-snell.com/ http://RFC.net/ http://www.warhead.org.uk/ Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software
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