[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: "Binary XML" proposals
Perhaps. On the other hand, many of your samples talk about imaging and for the real time visualization groups based on other text based formats (eg, VRML), it has been good enough. Again, the proposals for binaries are bi-annual events. As Sean says, a requirement the programmer thinks is obvious and engineers say may be obvious but wrong given a particular form, fit and function analysis. So we are back to comparing a standard binary for ANY XML language to binaries for particular XML languages and asking if the optimizations for the particular language warrant leaving binaries to each language (that is, the evidence of WML is based on the form, fit and function of the WML platform, not all web platforms in general). The time and place for a spec is when a system is to be developed. The time and place for a standard is when systems that have been developed have sufficient commonality that a standard provides a signficant cost recovery to justify constraining the evolution of that class of system. Umm... if this isn't for web app development and XML is SGML On The Web, then what other communities are we talking about here? Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Al Snell [mailto:alaric@a...] It's fine for Web app development, basically. In Web app development, increasing hardware costs is much easier than increasing programmer time, and you already have quite meaty servers lying around so the overhead of compressing with gzip is hidden. However, in other communities less well represented here, it's not very useful...
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