[Xml-bin] :-(
Al Snell
alaric@alaric-snell.com
Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:15:44 +0100 (BST)
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, KINNER,JASON (HP-NewJersey,ex2) wrote:
> 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:
Exactly - that's what I'm aiming for.
> 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.
...and things like SOAP servers should accept either, to deal with
different client developers making different decisions :-)
>
> -Jason
>
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