Re: Approaching an XML syntax for RIF

Boley, Harold wrote:

> For an Interchange Format, fully striped syntax carries too much
> baggage that can be easily reconstructed by a 'stripe expander'.

I understand that and, yes, you keep all the benefits of 
forward/backward compatibility. But what would be the purpose of 
skipping stripes when serializing, if you have to re-expand them before 
deserializing anyway?

I would be in favor of keeping RIF processing as simple as possible, 
even if the result is ugly (I mean, I wonder how many people will adopt 
RIF because its XML is beautiful; and how many will drop it if it is 
ugly :-)

Anyway, stripe-skipping (whether or not to skip stripes and which 
stripes) is a side issue in Sandro's proposal on how we approach the XML 
syntax for RIF, and we do not need to make a decision anytime soon, do we?

Christian

Received on Tuesday, 30 January 2007 13:32:13 UTC