Re: [xml-dev] XML Redux

[Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>]

> My feeling is that when you work through the implementation of handling 
type 
> tagged values you'll still end up with a fairly generic kind of object 
and 
> you're not going to get floats mapped to language native float types 
etc. 
> For example, all the classes would likely have some common base class 
> interface and be created by some factory or other.

Eww, yuck. :)

More technically, that is not the best way to go if you care about 
performance or security.

        Performance -- Why should I bother to intern a string if it's an 
int?  Cf, http://www2006.org/programme/item.php?id=5011

        Security -- why should I let a bad-guy send me millions of bytes 
just to parse the number 23, unless I like DoS attacks?  (Of course, a 
really secure solution would have the schema beforehand, but that might 
not always be possible.)

        /r$

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