Several recent proposals have
noted possibilities for improvement in XML. Notable among these are “XML
Binary Characterization” (http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xbc-characterization-20050331/)
and “REST, SOAP,
Speech Acts and the mustUnderstand model of SOA
communications”
(http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200504/msg00000.html).
Overlooked in this technical
discussion is a paper that Don Box and I posted late last Friday,
“XML Performance Improvements through Interdisciplinary Factor
Assessment and Application”. We commend it to your
attention. We are very proud of this research; it is an innovative approach to
XML performance. We would, of course, like to express proper appreciation for
the research directions and approaches implied by many contributors to XML-Dev
over the years, without whom we could not have taken this kind of research to
its present level. It is also timely – or, more exactly, slightly past timely
– in that proper consideration of this would have been most appropriate on the
day it was published.
http://strongbrains.com/misc/XMLPerf20050401.htm
So far, it has received a
cautiously measured reaction:
http://pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2005/04/02/7172.aspx
Best wishes,
Andrew and Don
Redmond,
Washington
