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Stephen Green wrote: > Hi David > > I agree that when we are doing B2B then there may be in many cases > compression already. In non-B2B though, such as within an > organisation network or intranet, I would see binary XML as becoming > commonplace to increase performance. And the evidence you have that it will do this is what exactly? A lot of people are working under twenty year old assumptions about what is and is not fast, that haven't been true for years. Binary formats are not a magic panacea to improve performance. In many cases, XML is actually smaller than competing binary formats. (Compare OpenDocument to the equivalent Microsoft Office binary, for example.) There are a lot of myths and wild guesses about performance. I don't doubt that people who never bother to crack open an analyzer or write a good benchmark will switch to binary XML for no good reason. That's a big reason I oppose it. The only areas in which the arguments for binary XML are the least bit compelling are in the wireless space, and that has a lot more to do with battery life than document size. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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