Re: binary XML

Well, i'm thinking if the "binarizers" will be made by diferent
companies, what is the chance that something like what happened to
Javascript, CSS and even HTML may happen, leading to incompatibilities
betwen "binarizers" and "debinarizers"...


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:38:57 -0000, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Frankly, i wonder if the work now done in XML/XSL will have to be
> > rewitern or redefined because of that...
> 
> One of the reasons that XSLT is defined in terms of an abstract tree model
> of a document is that it's completely unaffected if someone chooses to
> define a different on-the-wire transfer syntax.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/