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> At 09:42 AM 11/25/99 +0100, Paul Prescod wrote: > >Cell phones must increasingly deal with structured information. > >Therefore cell phones need to deal with XML. > > Agreed, but that doesn't answer the question of "Why XML?". Why not ASN.1, > SGML, SML, or a non-standard binary encoded XML that might be more suitable > over small pipes? The proxy on the last-hop to the cell phone can take > care of bidirectional conversion, right? True enough.... > IMHO, that answer only arrives once you realize that this structured > information isn't restricted to travelling the client/server path and > always going through that proxy. What if I want to send a web page or > vCard or whatever to another cell phone via IR or Bluetooth, where there's > no proxy available? That's where a well-deployed standard matters, and > *that's* "Why XML?". Okay, here's the crux of the issue where I'm concerned. A vCard or some other small fragment, that I can grok in this context - fine. However, I just can't see somebody reading a web page (or any other document of substantial size) on their cellphone - not even a fairly short page. It's that whole visual space concern that kicked this thread off to begin with; I can read a paragraph or so on a palmtop-sized screen without much trouble, or I can look through a short list, but actual *reading*? Not yet, and so far as I can tell, not in the next few years. The problem is simply one of being unable to track complex thoughts on a screen smaller than a playing card and with worse readability. Rev. Robert L. Hood | http://rev-bob.gotc.com/ Get Off The Cross! | http://www.gotc.com/ Download NeoPlanet at http://www.neoplanet.com 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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