[Xml-bin] An attempt to sort things out [long]

[Stephen D. Williams]

Al Snell wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
> 
> > > I'm proud to say that Olivier's invitied me to join the ASN.1 <-> XML
> > > working group :-)
> > Have fun!
> 
> I'll try. Still got to wade through some political paperwork, though!
> 
> > 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.
> 
> It's not *that* easy to throw together a static binary format... defining
> it, yes, but getting it implemented in all the important places (Perl,
> Python, Java, C, C++, ...) is a little harier.
> 
> > I could use help thinking of how to represent the latter.  I'll request
> > it in a separate message.
> 
> The in-place editing thing is awkward, and there *is* demand for a format
> that doesn't have to worry about it; I'm still not highly convinced about
> allowing in-place alteration to start off with. Votes?

Way too early for votes.  Have to see what I/we come up with first to
see how well it works, how hard it is to work with, etc.

"These days, the person saying something is impossible is usually
interrupted by someone already doing it." -- An old saying I like,
author unknown.

> > sdw
> >
> 
> ABS
> 
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