Re: [xml-dev] No XML Binaries? Buy Hardware

[Robin Berjon <robin@joost.com>]

On Feb 22, 2007, at 19:35, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Indeed these beliefs may not be unrelated. Both binary and hardware  
> solutions have the common distinction of being more opaque than  
> their competitors. Perhaps it is their very opaqueness that makes  
> them attractive.

In the interest of fairness, I've spoken to a great many proponents  
of efficient XML and interested parties, and I've only very rarely  
seen that argument come up other than as a joke. What I have seen far  
more often is people who don't see what is fundamentally less opaque  
about a text-based format (and if they're in the Web Services  
business, can we really blame them?).

Never ascribe to malice yadda yadda.

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Robin Berjon
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