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Sean Mc Grath <digitome@i...> writes: > [Paul Prescod] > [...] > > A frame is not an "element", it has no "attributes". Now I claim > >that a frame is an object and that it has properties. And any idiot > >knows that objects can be represented in XML using a variety of > >techniques but think about the logic of doing it this way: you are > >taking a thing that is "logically" an object, expressing it in > >terms of a text file format so that another module in the same > >process can re-interpret it as logical objects. > > > >The *only good reason* to dumb something down into XML elements and > >attributes is to move the information between processes separated > >by space, time or incompatibility. > > I believe it makes perfect sense to *think* of MPEGS, PDFs, > whatever, in XML terms. > > I't does not of course, make sense to *store* them as XML owing to > the enormous size bloat. But who said the XML needs to physically > exist in disk? > > Case in point, I have written a SAX driver for the MySQL relational > database. I have SAX software that can happily trundling through 1GB > of records treating them as XML. The XML never physically exists but > the entire API used to process the MySQL is SAX. > > I can get programmers who have never seen MySQL, or its API, to > write MySQL processing apps using a purely XML API. I do not see why > the same cannot apply to other formats such as graphics, sound > etc. In fact, I am working on a BMP driver right now. To think of data in XML terms implies a translation that is (generally speaking) non-obvious. If it were obvious we wouldn't have so many efforts trying to map XML to objects and vice-versa. You can make *a* translation that is easy to use, but it won't (yet) be a general solution. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's probably the approach (a [singular] translation) you used to map MySQL to SAX. I believe many people would agree with the idea behind your point, that a common API goes a long way to making communication and programming tasks simpler. That's what is being suggested with the grove paradigm: a common API can be used that provides more direct access to the underlying data, without requiring a semantic translation to XML first. -- Ken MacLeod ken@b... 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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