From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b97e385047500eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.enertel.nl!nntpfeed-01.ops.asmr-01.energis-idc.net!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!skynet.be!newspost001!tjb!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 23:53:29 +0100 From: Adrien Plisson Reply-To: aplisson-news@stochastique.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: fr-be, fr, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Experiences of XML parser generators for Ada? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <41b23f73$0$25049$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Organization: -= Belgacom Usenet Service =- NNTP-Posting-Host: 1312ffa3.news.skynet.be X-Trace: 1102200691 news.skynet.be 25049 80.201.64.164:10643 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@skynet.be Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6762 Date: 2004-12-04T23:53:29+01:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > The "HUGE overhead. e.g.: 84" is > being solved by the creation of "XML Binary Characterization Properties" > http://www.w3.org/TR/xbc-properties/. this is a very interresting paper. thanks for the pointer. although it does not solve the problem, it just clarifies and categorizes it. > If the schema data-types are the same as the Ada data-types, the space > required should be approximately the same. i don't agree with this: if the space is the same, it means you would not have any markup, just data, so there would be no need for xml. > The real problem is that the Ada > community has not been involved with setting W3C standards. Ada needs a > complete set of XML_IO packages including being able to create XHTML Strict. well, Ada has nothing to do with w3c. it is the our job, as Ada programmers to design and implement a library providing those features (as Xml/Ada does). it shall never be part of the standard. -- rien