David Megginson wrote:
> > Why not come
> > up with the concept of a 'compiled' xml document;
...
> This is not a new idea, but despite many bold attempts and breathless
> announcements, in five years no one has come up with anything that has
> caught on.
Yes, there is no standard, nor a COTS implementation in wide use.
However, I've seen various applications and frameworks rolling their
own. In particular Cocoon can store a SAX event stream in a sort
of "binary XML", for the purpose of caching intermediate results
in an XML processing pipeline. Admittedly, this usage is a bit
special.
J.Pietschmann
