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At 9:13 AM -0400 4/15/04, Thomas B. Passin wrote: >But if the xml "alternative" is not a text format, well-formedness >may not have an equivalent. I tend to doubt that. For instance, the format must not allow element names that contain illegal characters. It's not uncommon for binary parsers to neglect this test. Then they claim their format is faster to parse when their speed gain comes little if any from the binary nature of the data, but mostly from skipping this and other well-formedness checks. -- 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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