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> I have seen the same thing. Perhaps it's because XML has been driven so
> deeply into the infrastructure. In an XML application, the bandwidth
> costs and parsing overhead are generally trivial compared to the other
> processing requirements and the benefits that the network effect offers.
> In XML infrastructure that does NOTHING BUT move around and
> parse/serialize XML, these overheads become significant bottlenecks. So
> while "XML is inefficient" is an antipattern at the application level,
> it's an increasingly
> obvious truth at the infrastructure level. Obviously this
> doesn't mean that we abandon XML, just that we have to take
> compact, easier-to-parse representations of the XML Infoset
> more seriously in *internal* pipelines, and perhaps think about
> standardizing more efficient alternatives to the XML 1.0 syntax
> for high-performance or limited-bandwidth environments.
Exactly my thinking as well. Think about embedded controllers....some of
them are so tiny/slow that you can't easily do even the simplest of XML
parsing (ala kXML).
Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com
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