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Jay Chalfant wrote: > > In working on thin clients over thin pipes, I've had two notions regarding > XML: > > 1) Compressed XML: Not generic text compression, but DTD-specific > compression. It seems that if I have a document that conforms to a given DTD > that I could apply a generic transform (input DTD and document) that would > produce a minimal representation of the document. Readers of the document > would need to know the DTD and the generic transform used. Anybody know of > such a transform or work in this area? > > 2) Lightweight parser: If I am building a system that uses a single DTD, > there should exist the potential to produce a parser that is much lighter > that a standard (non-validating) parser. Does anybody know of a tool that > would accept DTD as input and produce source code for the "single-DTD" > parser? > > All comments welcome. Thanks. I think the lightweight parser is an excellent idea - let me know when you have done it! It would be very welcome in a project I am developing where code size is potentially very important. Philip -- Philip Nye Engineering Arts 72 Herberton Road ~ Bournemouth BH6 5HZ ~ UK tel +44 (0)1202 418236 ~ fax +44 (0)1202 418676 mailto:philipnye@f... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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