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At 10:39 AM -0400 4/11/04, Stephen D. Williams wrote: >Optimized XML is XML which has been tweaked to retain its existing >advantages while improving those aspects that need improving in >various circumstances. I.e. better (or no) parsing, serialization, >memory usage, CPU, size, avoidance of encoding (of binary image data >for instance), fidelity, etc. XML is text. There is no binary data in XML. You can encode text in binary, and you can encode binary in text using a variety of algorithms. However, if you're directly encoding binary data in your format that is not somehow a representation of text, then it is clearly not a representation of XML. It is something els, and that something else may be useful (I certainly don't think digital photographs should be encoded in XML) but it is still not XML. Not only that it cannot be processed with standard XML tools and APIs. XSLT, SAX, DOM, XPath, XQuery, XOM, have no means of representing arbitrary binary data. The "avoidance of encoding (of binary image data for instance)" means you've clearly moved beyonds the realm of XML. What you are then proposing is a new format, not an optimization of XML. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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