- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 21:20:17 +0100
- To: www-tag@w3.org
On Monday, February 17, 2003, 3:33:29 PM, Chris wrote: CL> Hello folks, CL> Action CL 2002/12/02: Write up problem statement about binary XML; CL> send to www-tag. This recently published paper should be added to the references and should add a new section to the document - efficient storage of binary objects. XML, SOAP and Binary Data February 26, 2003 Adam Bosworth, BEA Systems Don Box, Microsoft Martin Gudgin, Microsoft Mark Nottingham, BEA Systems David Orchard, BEA Systems Jeffrey Schlimmer, Microsoft http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/26/binaryxml.html From that paper: " It is interesting to note, however, that XML Schema defines the value space of the base64Binary and hexBinary data types as the actual octets. This makes it is possible to reduce or eliminate the size and performance costs of base64/hex decoding in many common scenarios (e.g., in-memory DOM trees, SAX pipelines, etc). However, this is not the case when the XML is serialized as UTF-8 or equivalent due of the nature of XML 1.0. " This is interesting since it is an "XML family" approach rather than an "XML 1.0 syntax" approach and, seen from that context, XML 1.0 sysntax is the odd one out that does not allow the direct representation of binary inline objects. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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