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Not sure if I get the argument, however I can echo that many benefits of the XML ecosystem are given away because of compromises. I really would like to see a s
by riedel 5y ago
Not sure if I get the argument, however I can echo that many benefits of the XML ecosystem are given away because of compromises. I really would like to see a sound schema-driven XML landscape that takes the learnings from hedge or visibly pushdown automata and makes sure that you can actually parse, validate and transcode XML (e.g. to binary representations) fast. I really am fascinated by the possibilities of grammar based compression on XML like done in the MPEG7 standard (I think it's used in DVB-T). Would have been great if XML could have at least replaced ASN.1 . XML should simply support different encodings natively. If you just want something readable and heavily extensible there seams no reason against JSON .
- saurik 5y agoFWIW, XML was long long ago abstracted as XML Infoset--which essentially represents the concept of an XML document as opposed to a specific text encoding with angle brackets and quotation marks--so it has always felt to me like "different encodings" are already "support[ed]...natively"?
- dasyatidprime 5y agoYou should look into https://www.w3.org/TR/exi/ https://www.w3.org/TR/exi/ if you're interested in binary XML encoding.
- riedel 5y agoLooked at it and I don't see much value. Tool support seems minimal particularly for embedded systems. Unfortunately there were few competitors and not much love involved when this was standardized. IMHO