On Apr 12, 2004, at 1:58 PM, Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote:
> A completely different spec is X.finf (finf = Fast Infoset) in which a
> schema for the XML infoset is being defined. This spec will allow
> encoding arbitrary XML documents without the need of a schema. In the
> future it may also be possible to use X.finf together with X.694 to
> encode open content (e.g. xsd:any).
Right, but I thought the whole X.694 idea was that because you knew the
schema you could encode character data that was representing numbers
super-efficiently and represent the tags as small integers; thus the
saving. So does X.finf actually give you that much of a saving? -Tim
