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• Subject: Re: reaching humans (was Re: Extract A Subset of a W3C XML Schema?)
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:38:09 -0400
• In-reply-to: <oprs69nxlmezizxn@localhost>

mc@x... (Mike Champion) writes:
>There are some increasingly important corner cases where all this is
>needed except that there is NOT that excess capacity that XML
>text/markup processing requires.  People are trying to figure how to
>have most of the XML cake and eat it too: Keep Infosets, XPath, DOM,
>XSLT, XQuery, validation, etc.; give up some interoperability, but get
>back some performance.  You may well be right that XML is ultimately
>destined to be more trouble than it's worth in such scenarios, but it
>will take a lot of failed experiments to prove that.  Don't hold your
>breath.

I didn't think it would happen within breath-holding time.  The
experiments have barely begun.  Even if it doesn't happen at the
meeting, I hope it happens in practice, over time.  Give binary formats
some momentum of their own again and see what happens.

 

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Simon St.Laurent
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