At 9:13 AM -0400 4/15/04, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
>But if the xml "alternative" is not a text format, well-formedness
>may not have an equivalent.
I tend to doubt that. For instance, the format must not allow element
names that contain illegal characters. It's not uncommon for binary
parsers to neglect this test. Then they claim their format is faster
to parse when their speed gain comes little if any from the binary
nature of the data, but mostly from skipping this and other
well-formedness checks.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
