Comment on EXI Profile: Local Value Capping

Dear all,

When reading up on the EXI specification section "7.3.3 Partitions
Optimized for Frequent use of String Literals" last two paragraphs
regarding the processing of value content items, I have one more issue
to rise connected to the EXI Profile:
In section "3. Local Value Capping" the parameter localValuePartitions
is used to turn on or off the use of local value partitions. Note
however that this same effect can be achieved by the use of the EXI
parameter valuePartitionCapacity - it is not only used for the global
value indexing.
Setting valuePartitionCapacity to 0 effectively turns off both local and
global value string tables.
So the localValuePartitions parameter of the EXI profile has effect only
when valuePartitionCapacity is greater than 0.
However, the use of global value tables (valuePartitionCapacity > 0)
while turning off only the local value tables (localValuePartitions = 0)
is something that is highly unlikely to be useful in any scenario.

So why having yet another parameter for something that is already
available as option in the EXI specification?

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Best Regards,
Rumen Kyusakov
PhD student 
EISLAB, Luleå University of Technology

Received on Friday, 5 October 2012 07:57:21 UTC