Re: [DotGNU]On the importance of XML (was: [arch-users] In defense...)

[Jay Freeman \(saurik\)]

*Just got arond to reading this.*

In case anyone's interested (although I don't know if it has anything to do
with the conversation really), one possible option for an efficient storage
/ quickly parsable (but completely non-human readable) is the WAP Binary XML
Content Format:

http://www.w3.org/TR/wbxml/

Sincerely,
Jay Freeman (saurik)
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Subject: [DotGNU]On the importance of XML (was: [arch-users] In defense...)


...
> Now there are many ways in which this could be achieved; it would
> be easy to design a replacement for XML which can be parsed much
> more efficiently (for example, by using Dan Bernstein's Netstrings
> instead of the <tag> ... </tag> markup syntax), or alternatively
> one could easily design a replacement format which is more suitable
> for editing by hand.  (However, achieving both of these goals at the
> same time would probably be a difficult if not impossible task.)
...
> Greetings, Norbert.
>
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