- From: UCHIDA Hitoshi <uchida.hitoshi@canon.co.jp>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:07:51 +0900
- To: Jaakko Kangasharju <jkangash@cc.hut.fi>
- Cc: public-exi-comments@w3.org, youenn.fablet@crf.canon.fr, fujisawa.jun@canon.co.jp
Dear Jaakko, > UCHIDA Hitoshi <uchida.hitoshi@canon.co.jp> writes: > > >> > In 7.3 String Table, > >> > what do you think about a function to share the string table > >> > between two documents ? > >> > > >> > After an EXI processor finished encoding a first document, > >> > it uses the string table of the first document to encode > >> > a second document. > >> > This function can make the size of the second document smaller. > >> > >> EXI already provides one feature that can be used to achieve the > >> functionality you request. Namely, it is possible to encode a series > >> of XML documents as an EXI fragment, which will retain both the string > >> table and any learned grammar content between individual documents of > >> the series. > > > > I understood the feature. Thank you very much. > > > > When you define the grammar format in future, > > I hope a feature to enable applications to create a document specific > > grammar because a general grammar content created from a schema would be > > large. > > Such a feature will be helpful for embedded devices. > > I am not sure whether we have mentioned this before, but the working > group does not intend to define an interchange format for the grammars > or string tables, which it seems to me that you are requesting. The only > way we define for interoperation of schema-informed encodings is using > XML Schema. > > Your request for a document-specific grammar could, I think, be > fulfilled in an interoperable manner by defining a document-specific XML > Schema and converting that into grammars according to the grammar > derivation algorithm in the EXI specification. I understood your explanation. Thank you very much. -- Regards, Hitoshi Uchida <uchida.hitoshi@canon.co.jp>
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