Article:		Binary XML, Again
Subject:		Too many words
Date:		2003-08-14 11:59:15
From:		jonnie savell
Kendall's demand for performance numbers is ridiculous. The ratio of words to ideas is enormous. This reduces the quality of the article.

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• Too many words
  2003-08-14 12:39:37 Kendall Clark [Reply]
  
  I'm not sure what counts as an "idea" for you, but I'll try to do better next time. (And if you think this piece is wordy, you should have seen it before Edd cut it down a bit. So I'm probably guilty as charged there, too.)

  
  However, I fail to see what is "ridiculous" about asking for empirical data to back up performance claims about binary variants of XML. Frankly, I think that's just the bare minimum of doing good research and engineering.

  
  As for whether I "demanded" data, I'll let other, perhaps more charitable readers decide. (Which, of course, all begs the question: so what if I *did* "demand" data...Performance claims without some empirical grounds are pretty meaningless, as just about everyone outside the Marketing Department concedes.)