[Project] XML, Byte Encoded XML, How does it talk ?

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 24 May 2001 11:55 am, you wrote:
>
> I "invented" byte coded XML, although it won't win any
prizes for
> originality.
>
> The idea is simply that there is a pre-determined dictionary of
> defined tags (nb tags, not values), which are huffman encoded. Of
> course there is scope for dynamic distribution of a dictionary - but
> lets not overcomplicate things at this stage.
>
> An xml message is then parsed and recoded substituting a short code
> for each tag, resulting in a simplified message which is easier to
> parse at the receiving end and more compact to store/send over the
> wire. Values are left untouched.

I was about to suggest that XML was a bit OTT for a protocol of this type,
and that using our own encoding system (for transmission over the wire)
might
be better.

However, I'm a bit worried that were trying to define a protocol when we
dont
really know what we want to do with it, other than the brief outline of a
device in it's name.

Would we be better trying to spec out what we want each device to do, then
trying to tackle the problem, rather than defining a protocol & then
designing devices around that.

I'm just worried that without a clear vision of what we are trying to
acheive
we'll end up having to re-write the protocol at a later date, wasting all
this work we're doing now.

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