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• To: Liam Quin <liam@w...>
• Subject: Re: XML Compression (Was RE: An unclear pointwith W3C XML 1.0 Specification)
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:52:55 +0100
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Liam Quin wrote:
> As I've said in public on a number of occasions, we can't stop people
> from using a binary representation to transmit XML.  They're already
> doing it.  There are dozens (hundreds?) of systems and formats out
> there today.

Not hundreds, but definitely many. Last time I tried to find as many as 
I could I came up with 80ish. Many of those were extremely similar 
however -- there are many usages that contradict one another to some 
degree but not that many (and, as we're finding, not as strongly as we 
thought).

> We don't yet have a clear answer to the question, "is there likely
> to be a single format or framework that will come close to meeting
> enough people's needs?" and without that it's hard to compare costs
> and benefits.

We don't yet have the clear answer, but I personally find it much 
clearer now than a year ago thanks to the very valuable input that 
people have brought to the WG's table. I have hope that things will be 
clear soon enough :)

> PS: Sometimes I think the main difficulty the W3C XML Binary
>     Characterization Working Group has is in living down such a
>     long Working Group name, but that's another story :-)

   "10. Terseness in Working Group Naming is of minimal importance."

-- 
Robin Berjon
   Research Scientist
   Expway, http://expway.com/

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