- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:25:48 -0400
- To: David Mohring <heretic@ihug.co.nz>, www-xml-packaging@w3.org
At 07:41 PM 7/28/00 +1200, David Mohring wrote: >I suggested using the zip ( or now java jar ) file format some time ago. > >http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/199902/msg00101.html I'm not sure that packaging will always involve delivering every document described, so I'm not sure that a zip/jar format makes sense in general. A non-validating parser might be interested to know some details about a document, for instance, but might not care to download every related document. Also, parsers tend to process more than one document of a particular type, making caching potentially a more useful strategy than combination and compression. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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