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David A. Lee schrieb: > I'm dual-posting this because I think it is relevant to XML in > general, but perhaps more so to xquery Not a good idea when starting a discussion, because typically, no one list will get the full discussion. I think I would rather have posted pointer mails to other lists. > There is no standard or even 'community accepted' way of serializing > XDM Isn't XDM predicated on the existence of an in-memory representation? Aren't node IDs just an abstraction for pointers to memory locations? Isn't there a desire in XDM to get away from the nitty-gritty XML syntax details and join the realm of programming languages and their data structures living in memory? So when thinking about serializing this, why in God's name use XML? Using a special XDM deserialization appliction to parse an XML document representing an in-memory representation (a) of the result of parsing another XML file into XDM or (b) of the result of an XSLT or XQuery execution, or (c) the equivalent in low-level code in Java or C using an XSLT/XQuery implementation, somehow strikes me as odd. In many cases, will it not be less efficient to start the XDM/XML deserialization than to repeat the process that produced the XDM in the first place? In all cases, will it not be more efficient to just use some run-of-the-mill serialization format? I'm sure plenty of those have been produced to foolproof perfection throughout the decades. I would honor those efforts instead of rolling my own wheel in angle brackets. -- Michael Ludwig
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