Validation, transformation, and encryption/signature processing are
the primary functions for which people use XML gateways.
Anne
On 2/24/07, Len Bullard <> wrote:
> Finally, the prosaic answer: the accelerators are not necessary for parsing
> but for inspection and routing. The 'otherwise process' is somewhat less
> prosaic. It sounds like the applications that make the civil liberties
> lawyers nervous, but politics aside, wouldn't requirements to inspect, route
> and 'otherwise process' be there for any application that has to open the
> packets and 'look see' even if the bits weren't in XML?
>
> IOW, given that prose, this doesn't seem to be an XML issue although
> possibly XML makes it easier/convenient to do.
>
> len
>
>
> From: David Megginson [mailto:]
>
> On the other hand consider a network carrier or major data centre that
> has to inspect, route, or otherwise process XML documents at wire
> speed as they fly past. That *is* a situation where accelerated
> parsing of some kind might make a difference.
>
>
>
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