RE: [xml-dev] XML Performance Improvements through Interdisciplinary Factor Assessment and Application

["Andrew Layman" <andrewl@microsoft.com>]

I wonder if we could produce something by sticking these ideas together,
combining early middle-eastern writing patterns with this proposal,
using XML written right-to-left when sending and left-to-right when
returning, producing what I think would be "boustrophedonic XML" or
"BXML". Or "LMXB"?

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Cover [mailto:robin@oasis-open.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 12:36 PM
To: Michael Kay
Cc: Andrew Layman; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XML Performance Improvements through
Interdisciplinary Factor Assessment and Application

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Michael Kay wrote:

> Why does everyone parse XML from left to right when you could do it
just as
> well from right to left?

Indeed.  This is just so much more Western imperialism.  A new form of 
LMX gaining popularity in the middle east is based upon an alternate
reference concrete syntax.  An instance looks something like this
(using roman for arabic characters in this 7-bit email message, 
displayed suitably for TTY); the english [start] and [end] are not
part of the instance:

[end]<xxx\>iii wvoiii oii ooivww owwv I
<xx\>vvv<xx>www ooi iio<xxx>[start]

It's being proposed for inclusion into XML 2.0.

-rcc

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> Michael Kay
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>   _____  
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> From: Andrew Layman [mailto:andrewl@microsoft.com] 
> Sent: 06 April 2005 18:57
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] XML Performance Improvements through
Interdisciplinary
> Factor Assessment and Application
> 
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> 
> 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).
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> http://strongbrains.com/misc/XMLPerf20050401.htm
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> So far, it has received a cautiously measured reaction:  
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> http://pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2005/04/02/7172.aspx
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> Best wishes,
> 
>  
> 
> Andrew and Don
> 
> Redmond, Washington
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