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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Re: [ubl-dev] Top 10 uses of XML in 2007
Isn't it a matter of high end versus low end? And therefore applying that to UBL as a form of XML, isn't it likely that high end commerce systems will favour a binary translation of the XML? >>> "Stephen Green" <stephen.green@bristol.gov.uk> 19/02/07 18:04:29 >>> It's interesting then to see how Open Office implements its Base database. Internally it's just an SQL insert statement with some XML metadata. But of course it's zipped. At runtime it is made to look and act as a relational database but it is just text serialised and deserialised, it seems. Not sure what means in terms of the discussion. If there were nothing to it more than that it's a wonder all RDBMS databases don't do this. Surely they use binary for a reason other than to be fashionable. Steve >>> Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> 19/02/07 17:58:57 >>> Stephen Green wrote: > Saying the XML gets compressed on the wire anyway just adds > to my logic that compression and therefore binary are preferable > on the wire. But I'd take it further and say they are better for > applications too: just ceratin circumstances where the binary > is a real pain (hence the rise of XML I guess)but would that see > folk throwing away their daatabase in binary and just using the > file system. Do you really believe that databases have anything at all to do with compression or saving space? Databases routinely are multiple times larger than the actual data they contain. Databases are optimized for queries and speed, not for size. Size has nothing to do with why we use a database instead of a file system. -- *Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/ _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php ______________________________________________________________________ Please note the new simpler name for our website: http://www.bristol.gov.uk Our email addresses have also changed - visit http://www.bristol.gov.uk/bigchange for further details. Sign-up for our email bulletin giving news, have-your-say and event information at: http://www.bristol.gov.uk/newsdirect ______________________________________________________________________ Please note the new simpler name for our website: http://www.bristol.gov.uk Our email addresses have also changed - visit http://www.bristol.gov.uk/bigchange for further details. Sign-up for our email bulletin giving news, have-your-say and event information at: http://www.bristol.gov.uk/newsdirect _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php ______________________________________________________________________ Please note the new simpler name for our website: http://www.bristol.gov.uk Our email addresses have also changed - visit http://www.bristol.gov.uk/bigchange for further details. Sign-up for our email bulletin giving news, have-your-say and event information at: http://www.bristol.gov.uk/newsdirect ______________________________________________________________________ Please note the new simpler name for our website: http://www.bristol.gov.uk Our email addresses have also changed - visit http://www.bristol.gov.uk/bigchange for further details. Sign-up for our email bulletin giving news, have-your-say and event information at: http://www.bristol.gov.uk/newsdirect
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