• To: 'Elliotte Rusty Harold' <elharo@m...>
• Subject: RE: The Rising Sun: How XML Binary Restored the Fortunes of Innovato rs
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:06:34 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

Fair enough.  There is a problem of speed.  Alternatives are 
always interesting.  Still, one doesn't need a W3C standard 
to use a binary format for XML.

Norm Walsh provided the following on the TAG list:

https://fi.dev.java.net/

in the evidence column.  As I said to the IBM, Microsoft 
and BEA reps, the counter-proofs can be produced by the 
competitors.

len

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...]

Far too much effort has been spent shouting supposed self-evident truths 
about how much faster/smaller/sexier binary formats are. Little in the 
way of evidence has been produced, especially when:

1. You rule out all the lossy formats
2. You don't choose the slowest text parser out there to compare to.

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