Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)
Al Snell
alaric@alaric-snell.com
Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:53:00 +0000 (GMT)
On 5 Dec 2000, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Just to add my $.02, I'd rather see us using ASN.1 (and I absolutely
> DETEST Asinine-1) than XML. Indeed, I'd like to see us come up with a
> relatively-extensible binary format; if we're planning to use binary
> for SQL, we might as well use it for flat-file as well. The fact that
> data is being exploded by a factor of 6-10 is just unacceptable.
I find XML barficious myself, for these kinds of reasons. Having a
standardised format for tree-structured data is a noble goal, and what
XSLT and friends do is lovely, but XML seems such a terrible
representation!
ASN.1 is an acceptable choice, but the availability of tools to build XDR
stuff (read: the RPC libraries found on any UNIX machine capable of
NFS) may make XDR a good idea (see "man 3 xdr")
ABS
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