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Simon St.Laurent wrote: > I think that forking is both necessary and useful, and it might in fact > let the two communities communicate better both internally and with each > other. Amen. I feel this is even more true thanks to the fact that they do in fact share tools and ideas to some non-negligible degree of intersection. > Let's get the hell out of each other's ways. The sooner, the better, > preferably in an orderly way, with well-established bridges. > > A flexible set of tools that lets the must-have-typed-data-as-fast- > as-possible folks do their work without the overhead of XML seems like a > good idea on its own merits - preferably a toolset standardized in an > open process without intellectual property constraints and with multiple > interoperable implementations. A clearly-defined process for > converting between that format and an XML format, even a somewhat > grotesque XML format, would be even better. (Think of it as a filter > you can insert between the data and an XML parser, letting you treat it > as XML even though it ain't.) That's _exactly_ the point. A good binary format ought to be SAX_DOM-in/SAX_DOM-out. If it's built on XML-related foundations (eg the Infoset) it'll be that much more easy to bridge. I'm looking forward to cross-pollination replacing cross-pollution. -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...> Research Engineer, Expway 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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