[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Is there anyone working on a binary version of XML?
Not only "attempts to define". The "binary XML" defined by the WAP Forum is a format for tokenized XML. It's supported by cellular phones with WAP browsers, e.g. http://www.nokia.com/phones/7110/index.html. Element and attribute names are replaced by binary values to make parsing cheaper in the client. It does, however, not support all XML features. For example, XML namespaces are not supported. You can read more about WAP at: http://www.uplanet.com/pub/111398_WAP_V1whitepaper.pdf Peter Stark > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of > Dan Brickley > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 12:54 PM > To: 'xml-dev@i...' > Subject: RE: Is there anyone working on a binary version of XML? > > > > On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, 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. > > 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 which attempts to define a 'compact binary representation of XML'. (If going down that route, I'd rather have a compact binary representation of whatever it was that I'm representing in XML, rather than of the XML that I might've used as a textual representation of the data... But then that really wouldn't be XML.) Dan 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...) 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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