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DIME will certainly be worth thinking about in a couple of years when (?) there are implementations available on many different platforms, but I think going with the current winner would be more viral. If one of the values for XML is that one can hack it together in a text editor, then I think it is consistent if an "XAR" similarly would use the most common technology. So the spec should be something that a vendor can look at and say "well, this will only take me a hour or two to program in:open a ZIP file, look for files with well-known extensions, load those, and register the files with apropriate schema choosing mechanism" at the least. Cheers Rick Jelliffe ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Clark" <jjc@j...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 11:44 AM Subject: Re: Packaging (was Re: Interoperability) > Another format that should be considered is DIME: > > http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/xml_wsspecs/dime/default.htm > > It seems pleasantly simple and well-designed. You can stream it for both > input and output. It is being used by the Web Services Routing Protocol > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsrvspec/ > html/ws-routing.asp > > so will probably get implemented quite widely. > > To use DIME as the XML packaging mechanism, the first record in the DIME > package would be meta-data, presumably in some XML format. On the hand it > doesn't provide random access. > > James > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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