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Re: XML not ideal for Big Data

• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
• To: "Michael Sokolov" <sokolov@ifactory.com>,"'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:43:55 +0100

Original Message From: "Michael Sokolov"

> Binary, numeric data, such as video, images
> and audio, to say nothing of scientific data (years of detector readings
> in
> a neutrino decay experiment) is just not the sweet spot for XML.  I
> searched
> for "MP3 to XML converter", but couldn't find anything.

As an aside, I always imagined that some organisations, if given the chance,
would define a video codec output that looked something like:

<frame>
    ...
    <pixel x-location="1091" y-location="1002" render="true">
        <red>128</red>
        <green>64</green>
        <blue>32</blue>
        <alpha>1.0</alpha>
    </pixel>
    <pixel x-location="1092" y-location="1002" render="true">
        <red>128</red>
        <green>64</green>
        <blue>31</blue>
        <alpha>1.0</alpha>
    </pixel>
    ...
</frame>

Not a lot of compression here!  Certainly not the ideal format for mobile 
video.

Pete Cordell
Codalogic Ltd
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  • RE: XML not ideal for Big Data
    • From: "Michael Sokolov" <sokolov@ifactory.com>