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• To: Alessandro Triglia <sandro@m...>
• Subject: Re: The Rising Sun: How XML Binary Restored the Fortunes of Innovators
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 08:19:07 -0400
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Alessandro Triglia wrote:

> True, with XML 1.0 you can use any Unicode viewer (or any EBCDIC viewer, or
> any SHIFT_JIS viewer, or any xyz viewer,  etc., depending on the
> circumstances) -- you don't have to use a specific program like the MS XML
> 1.0 viewer that is built into IE.  But still, if FI viewers became
> ubiquitous, what would be the fundamental reason for concluding that FI does
> not comply with the "view source" paradigm?  


In the short term (by which I means a few years, maybe even a few 
decades) there's probably not a lot of difference. In the long term, 
i.e. centuries or more, the difference might become significant. Many of 
the NOT XML formats are much harder to decode without pre-existing 
knowledge of the format or even the specific schemas used to encode the 
information. Whether this is true of the FI version of NOT XML or not, I 
don't know. The real question is whether the full information content of 
the document is present in each instance. The level of redundancy also 
matters. Compression is the enemy of robustness.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/
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