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Tim Bray wrote: > > At 08:54 PM 3/25/99 +0000, Dan Brickley wrote: > >Quite so. But there are still initiatives such as > > > > http://www.wapforum.org/docs/technical.htm > > http://www.wapforum.org/docs/technical1.1/WBXML-03-Feb-1999.pdf > > I read some of it, and if you buy the idea that a binary form of XML > is useful, it seems quite sensible. I'm agnostic; if they think they > need it who are we to tell them they don't? Obviously it has to > round-trip with plain ole XML. -T. > I think what this really is, when you strip out the concept of binary XML, is a suggestion for a compression format tuned for markup streams. There are two distinct issues 1) efficiency of parsing 2) compactness. A standard compression format for XML (ala zip,gzip etc) would be for bandwidth limited applications. Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net 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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