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RE: Is there anyone working on a binary version of XML?

  • From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@m...>
  • To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@t...>, "Dan Brickley" <Daniel.Brickley@b...>, <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:05:25 -0500

jonathan in binary form
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


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