[Xml-bin] Some central design issues

[Al Snell]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Stefan Zier wrote:

> I doubt that binXML is likely to replace textual XML in the majority of
> applications. As I mentioned before, IMHO binXML is interesting for
> special-purpose applications only where the additional cost of implementing
> binXML is justified by savings in some other field (such as bandwidth or CPU
> cycles - which aren't really that sparse in many applications) or makes it
> feasible to use XML at all.

I know, but making textXML be only used for end user applications would be
the ultimate success, I reckon.

> This has been brought up before, but I think it hasn't been discussed
> thoroughly: There is an ISO standard that describes so-called Groves. A
> Grove is - basically - a directed graph of nodes with properties. Groves
> were originally designed to have a model for data that is represented in
> SGML. It also has a kind of Schema language to describe specific data
> models.

Interesting... URL?

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