On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 14:21, Bill de hÓra wrote:
> XML inefficiency is a red-herring wrt the PSVI.
XML's perceived information representation inefficiency appears to be a
key motivator of the PSVI. The more or less complete difficulty of
representing the PSVI directly in XML suggests that there are some
genuine efficiency issues to consider - whatever direction you may
choose to follow them.
Cases like base64 and hexBinary may be outliers, but they're worth some
serious consideration.
> I can't see how a binary format helps. The metadata will still need to
> be applied.
Sure - but you can build the metadata information directly into the
format rather than going through a parse-and-then apply approach. A new
format would at least provide an opportunity to represent PSVI
information directly.
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