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Jon Knight writes: > Does a *.jar file imply that XML is getting tightly bound to Java? > What about people wanting to use other programming language with > XML? Surely XML's architecture should be independent of the > programming languages used to implement its tools? Peter was using *.jar by way of casual example, not precept. In fact, since jar is based on zip, it is unsuitable for this sort of work (the whole file has to be read before any can be processed). A streaming protocol similar to tar or cpio is the only reasonable alternative for packaging, since an application can start working with the contents before the whole archive has been downloaded. Note also that packaging does not concern only XML entities -- there's also the problem of bundling non-XML entities, such as vector and raster graphics, audio and video clips, VRML worlds, etc., that are referenced from within an XML document. In the end, then, this is a problem that we have to solve anyway. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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