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Re: Partyin' like it's 1999

• To: Guillaume Lebleu <gl@b...>
• Subject: Re: Partyin' like it's 1999
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:06:09 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Guillaume Lebleu wrote:


> But once in production, why not switch my Serializer to serialize to YAML,
> XML
> Binary or what have you (even keep DOM objects for ex. for in-process
> communications), as long as both service consumers and producers
> agree? I could keep my application that receives DOM objects or SAX events
> but have actually something sent on the network that looks totally different
> from XML.

Because then when something does wrong (and it always does) it's no 
longer easily inspectable.

> I know this would greatly help performance.

I know no such thing. Actual measurements are required to make claims 
about performance. Furthermore, measurements of one specific scenario 
can not be blindly extrapolated to different scenarios. Optimizations 
made for one purpose often hinder performance in other scenarios. XML 
seems to be a fairly good middle-of-the-road approach for a lot (not 
all) applications. There are applications where XML doesn't fit well. 
You'll find quite a few of them in 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xbc-use-cases-20040728/ Perhaps rather than 
breaking XML for all the cases where it does work well now, we should 
invent a new format that matches these different needs. One solution 
does not fit all problems.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published!
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim

• References:
  • RE: Partyin' like it's 1999
    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
  • Re: Partyin' like it's 1999
    • From: Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...>
  • Re: Partyin' like it's 1999
    • From: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>
  • Re: Partyin' like it's 1999
    • From: "Guillaume Lebleu" <gl@b...>

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