- From: len bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 19:12:39 -0500
- To: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Peter Flynn wrote: > > Steve DeRose writes: > > The total costs for different forms, given an n-char GI are: > [...] > > The more I look at the arguments, the more convinced I am that > XML is not likely to be a meaningful format for distributing > database-resident bulk data. This shouldn't surprise anyone: it > was never designed to do this. You want to ship bulk data, you > send a Java applet followed by a gzipped datafile, and let the > applet generate XML locally for the display. > > ///Peter This gives me pause. I now wonder precisely which applications it will be good for. If all you are doing is sending XML to the display, HTML works pretty well for that. So what I get from XML then, is a display format with more complex hyperlinking? no.... len
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