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The fact that you think you've expressed the same thing is the root of your misconception. From the XML document I can see that the document was generated as a response to a method call, that methods may have one or more params, that this method has returned only one, that this method returned a double, and that this particular call resulted in a return of the value 28657. In your format, I get five meaningless symbols. Even in your particularly silly example, I see reasons for preferring XML. Want to try again? > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Plusch [mailto:mplusch@c...] > Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:48 PM > To: xml-dev > Subject: XML and ConciseXML > > In case folks think I'm making this stuff up, I just got > an email from the InformIT newsletter that reaches about > 1 million developers. > > The featured article is called: > "Processing XML with Java: Reading XML" > "Reading an XML document is a complicated, error-prone operation. > Elliotte Rusty Harold discusses how to use an XML parser to read the > document for you." > > Here's the URL: > http://www.informit.com/content/index.asp?product_id={30915BCB-25BD-40 > 89-A4BF-244D25BC7301}&011903 > > The first XML document shown is the following: > > <methodResponse> > <params> > <param> > <value><double>28657</double></value> > </param> > </params> > </methodResponse> > > In ConciseXML, it becomes the following: > 28657 > > Both forms are expressing the same thing, an > integer returned from a method call. > > XML 1.0 took: 126 characters. > ConciseXML took: 5 characters. > > Isn't there anyone out there who thinks it > is ridiculous to have a syntax that uses > 126 characters to express an integer? > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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