- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 17:04:23 -0400
- To: bsmith@atlantic-82.Eng.Sun.COM
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> <CNN-HEADLINE-NEWS> >--> <STORY><HEADLINE>Cat saved</HEADLINE> ... </STORY> > <STORY><HEADLINE>Nuclear War</HEADLINE> ... </STORY> > . > . > . > </CNN-HEADLINE-NEWS> > >In the snippit above, if CNN is braodcasting XML and I "tune in" at the -->, >I will read the story about the lucky cat but won't hear about nuclear war >unless CNN does something non-conforming. They probably will be forced to. Assuming that you are stream-based, the processor might see two stories, and an illegal end tag. This is not a good example though. Obviously you cannot hope to tune into a stream of structured information in the middle without some necessity for synchronization (jump to the middle of a frame of MPEG data, and see what you get). This is particularly interesting to me, because I have a proposal for exactly what you outline above: realtime delivery of HTML and XML. An application built using my proposal would not suffer from the above problem.
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