- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 21 May 1997 08:51:14 +0100
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
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
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