[Xml-bin] An attempt to sort things out [long]
Stephen D. Williams
sdw@lig.net
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:35:23 -0400
Al Snell wrote:
...
> I'm proud to say that Olivier's invitied me to join the ASN.1 <-> XML
> working group :-)
Have fun!
> Therefore, I'd be inclined to say that we ought to be focussing on a
> "DOM-like" representation of an XML document in a binary file, meaning
> that DOM tree operations should be implementable in constant time (eg, the
> element gives pointers to its children that can be followed directly
> rather than requiring parsing of all the children to find the desired
> one).
As I've mentioned, this is what I am interested in. Further, throwing
together a static binary structure is easy. It's making a flat but
modifiable format that's interesting to me. Deltas and overlays are
also important.
I could use help thinking of how to represent the latter. I'll request
it in a separate message.
sdw
> > This is all getting fairly complex, IMHO it would make sense to focus on a
> > single thing for now and get it done to see if its worth the effort at all.
>
> Yeah!
>
> ABS
>
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