(Mike Champion) writes:
>There are some increasingly important corner cases where all this is
>needed except that there is NOT that excess capacity that XML
>text/markup processing requires. People are trying to figure how to
>have most of the XML cake and eat it too: Keep Infosets, XPath, DOM,
>XSLT, XQuery, validation, etc.; give up some interoperability, but get
>back some performance. You may well be right that XML is ultimately
>destined to be more trouble than it's worth in such scenarios, but it
>will take a lot of failed experiments to prove that. Don't hold your
>breath.
I didn't think it would happen within breath-holding time. The
experiments have barely begun. Even if it doesn't happen at the
meeting, I hope it happens in practice, over time. Give binary formats
some momentum of their own again and see what happens.
--
Simon St.Laurent
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