Article:		Binary Killed the XML Star?
Subject:		The issue is standardizing a "binary XML" for interoperability
Date:		2003-11-21 01:43:05
From:		Michael Rys
The problem is not necessarily "binary XML". The problem is the notion of making it an additional interoperability standard. I gave the presentation of the Microsoft position at the W3C workshop above. And we certainly do not see a value in standardizing a "binary XML" for interoperability (hint: nice to have references to sources, but it may be good to also read them). Having more than one interoperability standards format (even if they claim to be "the same"), fragments the interop story and thus is counter-productive. There is value for binary representations of Infosets, XQuery data models etc. for internal processing (database storage, close-coupled transport from storage to APIs and XML feeds). However, these formats will want to be highly optimized for the given architecture and performance scenarios; and these formats are not interested to sacrifice this for the sake of interop. Instead, the APIs and XML itself provide the interop layer.

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