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>I can only speak in full competence about BiM, but I can assure you
that it >is
>not at all application-specific. I've obtained excellent results with a
>wide
>variety of vocabularies ranging from SOAP messages to XHTML and over
SVG,
>NewsML, GML, SMIL, as well as many customer-specific schemata. For all
of >those
>vocabularies, BiM beats gzip in compression and an XML parser in speed.
>Indeed,
>it also has other features that are application specific, but given
that >it's an
>evolvable, pluggable, and change-resilient format that guarantees
>backward/forward compatibility that doesn't cause interoperability
>problems.
Hey, I was just wondering if when you say BiM you mean Binary Format for
MPEG-7 Metadata? I'm asking as that is a format with which I have really
no familiarity, although we have another guy here with lots of MPEG-7
experience his is more at the theoretical level, meaning I could never
ask him to build anything, and if I tell him I'm interested in building
something he talks my ear off. If so do you have any hints etc. for
working with BiM in vocabularies such as you described, and for which it
was not specifically designed?
Hope this isn't a big bother.
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