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VTD, as described in teh article, is a parsing/indexing technique. Addition add-on functions in HW include schema validation and XPATH. Compostion is something that is best done in sw, hw has no performancde edge. Hope this explains something. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Hunsberger" <peter.hunsberger@g...> To: "David Lyon" <david.lyon@c...> Cc: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 1:58 PM Subject: Re: xml on a chip.... > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:57:04 -0500, David Lyon > <david.lyon@c...> wrote: > > > > I saw some news email about some people looking at doing dedicated > > xml on a chip. > > What exactly do you mean by "xml" in this case? XSLT ? Parsing, composition? > > > > > There are quite a number of dedicated little microprocessors around > > that are capable of doing such a job. Some have little network > > ports so that you can just plug them into a LAN and go. > > > > Just wondering if there is anybody on this list working on that? > > A long time ago (in a city far, far away) I did a little work on a > dedicated hardware architecture for tree traversal and merge. The > idea was to be able to parallelize general data processing. XML > didn't exist at the time, if it had the idea would have likely got > some traction.... :-) > > -- > Peter Hunsberger > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> >
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