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roddey@u... wrote: > >Imagine that you have all the features of XML: structure, flexibility, > common format for > >interchange, but that you perform zero processing steps to import or > export the 'document' > >from a program. (Actually, I'm thinking this would be done in chunks, but > essentially very > >few reads and writes.) > > > > Actually, to be fair, there would be a somewhat non-trivial amount of bit > fiddlin' to get it out of whatever canonical binary format you put it in, > into the local byte order, floating point representation, byte boundary > alignment, etc... Though hopefully that couldn't be any worse than parsing > :-) Not true, especially for Java.... If you read all my 'binary' related comments, I'm not talking about storing binary data (such as IEEE doubles), but rather normal XML style text elements, attributes, and body in a 'binary' structure that gives container-like access and speed. There might be some reason to allow real binary data, but that's not really my priority. You can flash convert real binary to hex for instance very easily. The byte order, etc. will be Java standard. Shouldn't be too tough for C/C++, etc. sdw > 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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