• To: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>
• Subject: Re: Re: Hostility to "binary XML" (was Re: XML2004 weblog items?)
• From: Oleg Tkachenko <oleg@t...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:46:02 +0200
• Cc: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <e3a5cb2c041122121053cd88dc@m...>
• Organization: Multiconn Technologies
• References: <e3a5cb2c04112210443e1ce9d9@m...> <41A23892.5030001@e...> <e3a5cb2c041122121053cd88dc@m...>
• User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

Michael Champion wrote:

> I ended my talk with a *personal* [don't hold any past, present, or
> future employer responsible!] recommendation "Leave evolution to
> Darwin, not Berners-Lee".  In other words, it's time to experiment, to
> develop specs that meet the needs of some specific industry, to see if
> parsing and compression technology for XML text can be dramatically
> improved .... and THEN to come back with data and best practices in
> hand to see if W3C Recommendations can be agreed upon.

I wonder if possible XML simplifications such as Norm Walsh was writing 
about [1] could speed up parsers?
If there were no DOCTYPE, no entities, no default or fixed attributes, 
no limitations on characters used, no default namespaces, etc.

[1] http://norman.walsh.name/2004/11/10/xml20
-- 
Oleg Tkachenko
http://blog.tkachenko.com
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: Re: Hostility to "binary XML"
    • From: Norman Walsh <ndw@n...>

• References:
  • XML 2004 weblog items?
    • From: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>
  • Hostility to "binary XML" (was Re: XML 2004 weblog items?)
    • From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
  • Re: Hostility to "binary XML" (was Re: XML 2004 weblog items?)
    • From: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>

• Prev by Date: Re: binary XML API and scientific use cases [Re: [ANN] nux-1.0beta2 release
• Next by Date: RE: Hostility to "binary XML" (was Re: XML 2004 weblog items?)
• Previous by thread: Re: Hostility to "binary XML" (was Re: XML 2004 weblog items?)
• Next by thread: Re: Re: Hostility to "binary XML"
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread