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Michael Champion wrote:
> I think the point is that the process that creates the XML can confirm
> that it is well-formed / valid, and produce a VTD associated with a
> document/message, then downstream processes that understand VTD can
> exploit it.
I don't see that as the use case at all. I certainly wouldn't support
passing VTD between different processes, systems, or organizations; any
more than I would suggest passing a DOM or a SAX event stream. The
proper serialization for XML is XML, nothing more, nothing less.
I see VTD as an alternate, disk-backed object model that competes with
SAX and DOM within a single program. This could have big advantages for
memory use and could allow indexing and fast access into the data.
However, this certainly shouldn't be passed around on the wire any more
than any other object model should be.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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