[WF-Protocols] Discussion on Open Model Format

[Jorrit Tyberghein]

Cody Russell wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 01:59, Eason Choo wrote:
>
>>This is old, i should've posted my change of vote, i'm all for just 
>>XML,( and binary xml- if necessary), since xml parsers/writers are very 
>>easily availbale.
>>
>
>Binary XML is not XML at all.  I talked to Daniel Veillard, author of
>libxml and former W3C member, and he told me that binary XML is total
>crap and that you lose all the good things about XML (portability and
>standardization).  Furthermore, he said "using the term [binary XML]
>just exposes them to a lot of flack or even trademark infringement".
>
Call it what you want but in the end many tools are going to want to use 
a binary
file format for compactness and speed of parsing. When I say 'binary 
XML' I just
mean a binary representation of the DOM structure instead of the usual ASCII
representation. He is right that strictly speaking it is not XML. His 
problems with
binary are also valid but that doesn't mean that binary formats don't 
have uses.

>
>
>I'd also like to point out that if it is decided that having an
>extensible format is desired as I was talking about yesterday, this
>would make this discussed binary format not very useful, whereas a real
>XML format would work perfectly.
>
One can make a binary version of XML just as extensible as the ASCII 
version.
There is no real difference other than how the DOM structure is represented
on disk so you don't loose anything here.

Greetings,

>
>
>Cody
>
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