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mc@x... (Mike Champion) writes: >There are some increasingly important corner cases where all this is >needed except that there is NOT that excess capacity that XML >text/markup processing requires. People are trying to figure how to >have most of the XML cake and eat it too: Keep Infosets, XPath, DOM, >XSLT, XQuery, validation, etc.; give up some interoperability, but get >back some performance. You may well be right that XML is ultimately >destined to be more trouble than it's worth in such scenarios, but it >will take a lot of failed experiments to prove that. Don't hold your >breath. I didn't think it would happen within breath-holding time. The experiments have barely begun. Even if it doesn't happen at the meeting, I hope it happens in practice, over time. Give binary formats some momentum of their own again and see what happens. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org
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