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Re: Re: Hostility to "binary XML"

• To: Oleg Tkachenko <oleg@t...>
• Subject: Re: Re: Hostility to "binary XML"
• From: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>
• Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:45:19 -0500
• Cc: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>, Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <41A25E1A.4090906@t...> (Oleg Tkachenko's message of"Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:46:02 +0200")
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/ Oleg Tkachenko <oleg@t...> was heard to say:
| Michael Champion wrote:
|
|> I ended my talk with a *personal* [don't hold any past, present, or
|> future employer responsible!] recommendation "Leave evolution to
|> Darwin, not Berners-Lee".  In other words, it's time to experiment, to
|> develop specs that meet the needs of some specific industry, to see if
|> parsing and compression technology for XML text can be dramatically
|> improved .... and THEN to come back with data and best practices in
|> hand to see if W3C Recommendations can be agreed upon.
|
| I wonder if possible XML simplifications such as Norm Walsh was
| writing about [1] could speed up parsers?

I doubt it. Not in the same sort of way that a binary encoding would/will.

| If there were no DOCTYPE, no entities, no default or fixed attributes,
| no limitations on characters used, no default namespaces, etc.

You'd still have to grovel over a whole bunch of characters. Parsers
would be smaller and simpler, maybe, but I don't think they'd be a lot
faster.

| [1] http://norman.walsh.name/2004/11/10/xml20

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@n...> | Great success is commoner than real
http://nwalsh.com/            | abilities.-- Vauvenargues

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