[Xml-bin] :-(

KINNER,JASON (HP-NewJersey,ex2) jason_kinner@hp.com
Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:09:32 -0700


Excuse me for being a little flippant, but I believe this falls in the
category of "Not My Job".  In theory, a well-designed binary transport
mechanism for XML would transparently plug in to a text-based processing
application (via the standards APIs, including, but not limited to, SAX,
DOM, JDOM, JAXP).  The fact that the storage or transport format is binary
should be irrelevant to the application developer.  The process I see is:

1) Develop using existing tools (text-based) to validate application
2) Think "Wow, I wonder if the binary implementation would make this
faster?"
3) Test assertion in #2
4) Decide which implementation you will use in your specific application.

This whole process will be facilitated by the MOM vendors including this as
an XML transport option (okay, that's kind of presumptuous, but why not?).

-Jason


-----Original Message-----
From: Leigh Dodds [mailto:ldodds@ingenta.com]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 6:49 AM
To: Al Snell; xml-bin@warhead.org.uk
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [Xml-bin] :-(


Its just as important to identify where binXML *isn't* of any use, so
that an informed decision can be made about where it can be usefully
applied.