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Re: XML 2.0
- From: COUTHURES Alain <alain.couthures@a...>
- To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:38:15 +0100
I, personaly, can't read files from looking at my hard disk or at my
network cables : we have programs to transform electronic signals to
more human intelligible informations. And I am not sure that text
format should be the unique format for XML : a recommended compressed
format would be fine for size and completion, even with multiple roots.
I don't like the way office files are now stored because they are a
compressed structure of folders, XML files and non-XML files (such as
pictures, fonts,...) and, for me, there should only be an XML file. So
why ? XML should always have the purpose of representing a complete and
coherent set of data, easy to store or exchange but binary data have to
be included. When big binary data are directly included in XML
documents using CDATA, a huge amount of memory is used to load them
(it's time consuming) and it might be useless. The zip format has some
advantages : no need to load all the inner files everytime, you can
pick the file you want or you can add another one without loading any
others. Can this be done with XML 1.0 (partial loading/saving) ????
XML is nothing but a (marvelous) notation... It can be used for
anything because it is a structured notation but we need other good
recommendations before beeing trapped with complementary uses of
proprietary formats.
Alain COUTHURES
<agenceXML>
http://www.agencexml.com
Michael Kay a écrit :
012f01c87741$526f8900$6401a8c0@turtle" type="cite">
Yes, but how do you ever know the document is complete and
not truncated?
My log file never is complete. That doesn't stop me wanting to read it.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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