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Alan Hodgson writes:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:59:21PM -0500, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
If we weren't dealing with 20 year old technologies we would agree in an
instant that XML was appropriate.
But will it be too hard a sell?
I think the biggest problem is the size bloat. DNS is just too sensitive
to data size issues.
Yep, agreed; XML is *not* size efficient by a long shot.
Also, XML parsing is *hard*, with entity references (which can cause
network accesses), memory overhead of maintaining parse trees, and lots of
other little issues. (XML generation is easy, but parsing is the hard
side of the equation.)
I really don't think it's a suitable space for XML. To be honest, I think
it would be a very bad idea.
Maybe S-expressions ;) -- joking!
- --j.
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