Re: [xml-dev] Packaging (was Re: [xml-dev] Interoperability)

[James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>]

Another format that should be considered is DIME:

  http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/xml_wsspecs/dime/default.htm

It seems pleasantly simple and well-designed. You can stream it for both 
input and output.  It is being used by the Web Services Routing Protocol

 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsrvspec/
html/ws-routing.asp

so will probably get implemented quite widely.

To use DIME as the XML packaging mechanism, the first record in the DIME 
package would be meta-data, presumably in some XML format.  On the hand it 
doesn't provide random access.

James