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Mike Kay wrote: "Think OSI 7-layer model. XML is layer 6, adxml is layer 7." I agree with Mike (I'm enjoying your XSL book by the way) that XML is a layer 6 (presentation) kind of thing. So are BNF and ASN-1. That raises the question, why is XML better than ASN-1 or BNF? Here's one thing I miss from ASN-1 - BER (Basic Encoding Rules). BER lets ASN-1 be represented "on the wire" in a deterministic and changeable way (I can't stream XML unless I change the representation). XML's heritage is documents not data and so the idea of BER is new to those from the SGML community. At the moment, all we get is the XML processing directive with its encoding attribute. I would like to be able to represent the XML message "on the wire" as a Generalised Data Stream (that is, with a code point representing the tag and a length to the end of the tag). This would be a much better way of streaming a message and would enable the first part of a message to appear on a browser or in a program before the last part has been processed. I know SAX can stream events, but for SAX to work the whole tag must be parsed, whereas with GDS whole tags can be skipped. Any thoughts? Yours, John F Schlesinger SysCore Solutions 212 619 5200 x 219 917 886 5895 Mobile -----Original Message----- From: owner-xml-dev@x... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@x...]On Behalf Of Kay Michael Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 5:56 AM To: 'Andrew Gorman'; xml-dev@x... Subject: RE: Another Question > I'm quite new to the world of XML, and am doing research to learn more about > the language. It seems to me that XML can be adapted to > whatever usage required, and it seems that it is renamed each time, or > better put, a prefix is added. If it is specifically used for advertising, it is > called adxml Think OSI 7-layer model. XML is layer 6, adxml is layer 7. Mike Kay *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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