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Let me clarify. I want to create a new standard, very closely related to XML and tracking and dependant on it, but using "binary" data structures. What I really mean by "binary" is that instead of a stream of characters that have structured meaning after parsing and transformation to an internal datastructure, I want a data format that encodes an equivalent data structure directly. I have designed something that is directly usable in memory, as loaded, with a DOM interface, or SAX, etc., only much more efficiently than starting from XML. The design I have in mind was controlled by an optimization process with constraints of standard Java capabilities. I think a reasonable name for this project would be: bXML or XMLb (probably the latter). Thanks sdw "DuCharme, Robert" wrote: > >I know, I know, this is anathema to what many of you feel is the > >essence of XML, and I agree to a point. > > It's not so much about feelings, as about contradicting the XML spec. > > >From 1. Introduction (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-intro): > > "XML documents are made up of storage units called entities, which > contain either parsed or unparsed data. Parsed data is made up of > characters, some of which form character data, and some of which form > markup." > > ("characters" there links to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#dt-character:) > > A parsed entity contains text, a sequence of characters, which may > represent markup or character data. A character is an atomic unit of > text as specified by ISO/IEC 10646 [ISO/IEC 10646]. Legal characters are > tab, carriage return, line feed, and the legal graphic characters of > Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646." > > Applying XML concepts to a binary data format sounds interesting and > potentially useful, but it wouldn't be XML. > > Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@ > snee.com> see www.snee.com/bob/xmlann for "XML: > The Annotated Specification" from Prentice Hall. > > 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > 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...) -- OptimaLogic - Finding Optimal Solutions Web/Crypto/OO/Unix/Comm/Video/DBMS sdw@l... Stephen D. Williams Senior Consultant/Architect http://sdw.st 43392 Wayside Cir,Ashburn,VA 20147-4622 703-724-0118W 703-995-0407Fax 5Jan1999 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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