Michael Champion wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
>
>> I continue to disagree strongly on both points.
>
> I have no stake in ASN.1, but I'm not so sure about the point that
> "you can't have it both ways." It is common sense that you can't
> optimize both speed and space simultaneously. I can imagine formats
> that are both faster and smaller than XML 1.0 but still faithfully
> represent some flavor of the Infoset, however. Can you say anything
> about what you think one might look like?
That it is common sense doesn't make it a law of physics in every case.
That said, speed of processing is one of my primary goals, not space
efficiency, however I believe I can impact that very well also.
For details, check out:
http://esxml.org/w3cout/W3C_esXMLPres_big.html
http://esxml.org
I'm much closer to releasing code.
sdw
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