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Robin Berjon wrote: > Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > >> There is no guarantee that the binary formats exported by one process >> make sense ton the next, even on the same architecture. I'm confident >> I can make sense out of XML on both ends. I'm not so sure about binary >> formats. > > > I've passed gzip'd data around boxes of different architectures, and I > tend to be pretty confident I can make sense of it on both sides. > There's no reason a well defined binary infoset couldn't make anyone > confident. Yet somehow we haven't managed to do that yet. All the stuff that interoperates is textual. I wonder if the problem is not so much binary v XML, but the that XML trees are awkward enough datastructures to stream efficiently and require too much buffering. Even if you can pass it around binary Infosets, processors still have the root ndoe/element item to contend with. Perhaps the problem goes away when we stop insisting on sending large single XML documents around instead of a few smaller ones. There's a lot to be said for the packet and MIME worldviews. Bill de hÓra -- Propylon www.propylon.com
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