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• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: The Rising Sun: How XML Binary Restored the Fortunesof Innovato rs
• From: "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@l...>
• Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:14:23 -0400
• Cc: David Lyon <david.lyon@c...>, xml-dev@l...
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> ...
> Binary formats are no more fundamentally resistant to corruption than 
> text based formats are. Indeed the ones being proposed are less 
> resistant because they are compressed and therefore less redundant. 
> While error correction can certainly be added to binary formats (CDs 
> do this, for example) I've yet to notice anyone proposing this for NOT 
> XML. The goal of NOT XML seems to be size and speed 

This was discussed as a possible option, but it's at the implementation 
level.  As one of my intermediate requirements is a chunked format, it's 
easy to FEC (forward error correct) the chunks when desired.

> at all costs, including the cost of transparency and disaster 
> recovery. At least with real XML, when something goes horribly wrong 
> with critical data, a human can probably fix the mistakes and recover 
> most of the information. With a binary format, that's going to be much 
> harder to do, if it's even possible.
>
>
>

sdw

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    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
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