Is there anyone working on a binary version of XML?

[Stephen D. Williams]

Leigh Dodds wrote:

> > Then imagine you can write or communicate the object to other
> > systems simply with IO
> > operations with no processing involved.  Then imagine that the IO
> > is async and very cheap and
> > that you are processing thousands of transactions per second,
> > most of which generate
> > fundamentally little processing steps.
>
> I just want to clarify my understanding of this thread: you're discussing
> a binary format which is analagous to the internal representation of an
> XML document (a DOM tree), and which can be stored, used and manipulated
> without revisiting the original XML text?
>
> Wouldn't a (undoubtedly naive) implementation of this be simply serialising
> the object graph to disk, or through an I/O stream? This is obviously easy
> in Java, and again is only obviously beneficial if the serialised object
> graph is more 'compact' (which I believe is at least partly behind your
> desire) than the original textual version?

Yes, that would acheive part of what I'm getting at, but not nearly enough.  You see I am
addressing several different performance problems with processing in Java at the same time so
the solution is a bit more holistic.

In concept, what I'm getting at is close to using a serialization of a DOM tree, however the
point is to avoid any transformations (even deserialization/serialization) when possible but
still have a DOM/SAX or even JGL like access to the tree.

sdw

>
>
> Just a brain check on my part ;)
>
> L.
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