Re: xml-dev Digest 30 Oct 2013 11:58:32 -0000 Issue 2876

[cbullard@hiwaay.net]

Nope.

1.  Binary is still faster and for some n of secure, a little more  
secure.  We can say all we want about machines getting faster,  
optimizations and so on but a binary with an explicit format is faster  
and easier.  The application makes a difference (say one-time-render  
vs real-time dynamic interaction).

2.  The reason to use a format is not simply its reapplication but its  
application.  PDF is a good case.  The rendering of XML into PDF is  
still a
large part of pubs, web or otherwise.  The PDF display engines and annotation
engines do a good job for redlining in review processes and the files serve
as a record (say auditing).

3.  Text (as in the case of a rendered document in final fixed form)  
is not always the optimum form.

The computer sciency reasons are not always the compelling reasons for  
a choice
of tools or forms.  The humans are.  They write checks.

len

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> xml-dev Digest 30 Oct 2013 11:58:32 -0000 Issue 2876
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> Topics (messages 59394 through 59394):
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> Is the binary file format dead?
> 	59394 by: Costello, Roger L.
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