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• To: Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek@l...>
• Subject: Re: Re: Where does the "nothing left but toolkits" mythcome from?
• From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:17:50 +1100
• Cc: Bob Foster <bob@o...>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>, XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>, "'Ronald Bourret'" <rpbourret@r...>
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even it's own documentation says this is not a binary xml format (at 
least that we can rely on) because the authors reserve the right to 
change it at will and warn against storing a bnux transformed document 
because it may not be able to be decoded in the future.

how many xml principles does this break? perhaps it could be question of 
the week :)

worse - the encoder/decoder must therefore be deployed in pairs - and 
upgraded in pairs. this may later become the basis of something, but it 
is along way from being a binary xml coding that is useful in general.

i guess if you're going down this path you'd like to see an analysis of 
it's performance vis a vis the xml<->asn.1 tools.

and finally if gzip/zip type compressions can add even more - why not 
just use them and put the effort into more efficient gzip algorithms - 
or better still a gzip encoder/decoder chip :) for use in mobile phones etc.

rick

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Bob Foster wrote:
>
>> Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm.  Format camps.  Now there's a thought.
>>
>>
>> Please Daddy don't send me to format camp! It's no fun there. They 
>> just argue all the time and nobody plays together.
>
>
> Yep, no fun there. And most of the argueing either way is more 
> handwaving FUD than arguments backed up by facts.
>
> I'd be glad if one could articulate what's conceptually wrong about 
> the intended usage and performance numbers of a practical binary xml 
> example, say, the bnux binary xml codec 
> (http://dsd.lbl.gov/nux/api/nux/xom/binary/BinaryXMLCodec.html).
>
> Wolfgang.
>
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