Re: [xml-dev] Pushing all the buttons

[Rick Jelliffe <ricko@allette.com.au>]

K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:
> > So there is certainly a class of developers who [expect] that all
> > optimizations are available through GUI switches or command-line
> > arguments (or factory methods, or properties), not hacking by code.
> >   
>
> So maybe we should concentrate on DTD caching (catalogs anyone?),
> maybe with GUI switches or command-line arguments, instead of binary
> XML?
Oh, not at all. The point is that the distinction between what is
intrinsic to XML and
what the current generation of XML parsers support out-of-the-box is
academic to
people building systems; when people claim "we need binary XML because
XML 
performance is too bad" it is useless for us to say "you are confusing
the tools
for the notation/paradigm"; they will answer "XML performance doesn't
exist
apart from (what is readily available in) the available tools".  

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe