[JDEV] XML stream parsing in Java

[Zoom Juice]

--- Thomas Charron <tcharron at ductape.net> wrote:
>Quoting Bill Ataras <billa at efax.com>:
>> This thing can bounce back and forth all day. I
just wanted to mention that
>> basic extensible binnary protocols are possible and
have been proven over
>> decades to work with incredible interconnectivity
between diverse
>> manufacturers and over widely varying
networkqualities.
> 
>   Possible, sure.  Many networks DO use binary data
streams, but we really 
> don't have a reason to do so.  We could also argue
to the cows come home to use 
> IRC's text based protocol.  Both binary and ASCII
protocol streams can do the 
> same things.  Heck, we could come up with a binary
XML protocol if we wanted 
> to.

Prophetic.  I've already come up with a nice one...
just I don't see any reason to put it forward at the
moment when it doesn't do much other than to distract
everybody from the main work.  Did I say distract from
the main work?  Oh yeah right... this entire thread is
distracting as far as doing useful work goes.  When
the time comes, XML can be improved to be more
compact, via above mentioned binary encoding scheme,
or some other, or via compression, or even via
encryption as I mentioned previously, or whatever.

Why don't the main perpetrators... err, um, I meant
*participants* in this thread consider moving on to
something more productive?

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