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Hi, I am working an a compiled form of xml (cxml). This parses xml and with DTD/schema information (also in cxml) to produce a file with the equivalent information. The cxml file has the following advantages: 1. Attributes are typed - based on Java basic types int,String etc. 2. Attributes may be extended to simple object types (Point(x,y), Color(red) etc.). 3. No parsing required - very quick to load. The data is written to a DataOutputStream using standard java. The data is read using a DataInputStream using standard java. The data format is extremely simple as it does not need to address all the concerns of a ASN.1 type specification. 4. With deference to David Brownwell - minimum bit stuffing. 5. Name Space references are resolved. 6. All text is stored in UTF8 and resolved to Unicode. 7. Artifacts of xml text representation are removed: Parsed/unparsed text distinction. Text is just text. Character entities are resolved. 8. Less importantly, smaller size about 30-40%. 9. The DTD/schema cxml is contains into two types of information: domain and constraints. The domain information is compiled into the cxml. This ensures that sufficient information to display a document or create a DOM model is contained within the document. The constraints form is referenced and contains sufficient information to edit the document contents. Including allowed element structure and additional attribute validation, cross attribute validation etc. 10. The base interface to the cxml reader is a SAX like event stream. I hope to post a reference to this specification and implementation (open source) within the next two weeks. Planned Extensions: I have an older version of cxml which encodes XML to define a Swing interface and event handling. Using this user interface definition I have basic a browser to view cxml structures directly. An generic editor would not be too difficult. I hope to make these available also. This Swing interface requires an extension to XML to handle Swing components (Java beans). The DTD must be dynamic. Does this element support this attribute having this type when attribute x="y"? It is not feasible to define a DTD which contains all the attributes for all possible java components. The compiler and runtime loader must determine the type and set/get methods for the attributes dynamically. Anyone interested? Regards Peter Wilson 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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