> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liam Quin [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 1:34 PM
> To: Derek Denny-Brown
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Hostility to "binary XML" (was Re:
> [xml-dev] XML 2004 weblog items?)
>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:09:06PM -0800, Derek Denny-Brown wrote:
> > Most of the CPU cost of parsing is related to the abstract model of
> > XML, not the text parsing: Duplicate attribute detection, character
> > checking, namespace resolution/checking. Every binary-xml
> > implementation I have researched which improves CPU
> utilization does
> > so by skipping checks such as these. At that point you are
> no longer
> > talking about XML.
>
> One can do validation in the writer and then plausibly skip
> the sort of checks you mention in a reader, and still be
> talking about XML, even with today's textual interchange formats.
Interesting, so if I'm writing an XML Web Service end point I should
trust third parties to do the well-formedness and validity checking as a
"performance enhancement"? Even ignoring the security implications of
this it still seems like a horrible idea.
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