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RE: xAP and XML
- Subject: RE: xAP and XML
- From: Patrick Lidstone \(Personal E-mail\)
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:55:00 +0000
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face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Original
Message-----<B>From:</B> Michael McSharry [mailto:mcs101main@xxxxxxx]
<B>Sent:</B> 17 March 2004 16:12<B>To:</B>
xAP_developer@xxxxxxx<B>Subject:</B> Re: [xAP_developer] xAP
and XML</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">When I
first looked at XAP a few months back my initial though that for the most
part XAP was a document (message) exchange definition and it would seem
that use of XML would be more mainstream and flexible. I like the
idea of using XML.</FONT></DIV>
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size="2">Does the proposal that is being foreshadowed
change the header/body structure of an XAP message or is it one
where tools are being introduced so an XAP
node can translate between XAP schema using XML
technologies?<SPAN class="532415217-17032004"><FONT
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color="#0000ff">No absolutely not - the message structure on
the wire stays exactly the same. The decision not to use XML on
the wire was a conscious one - if you look at the last example you
can see why - it's hopelessly inefficient in byte terms, and much much more
complex than xAP to parse. As you suggest, the similarities
allow programmatic mapping from xml to xap structures and
vice-versa - exposing this to programmers would allow them the benefit of
xml tools on those machines powerful enough to exploit them,
but still allow low end devices to come to the
party.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial"><FONT
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class="532415217-17032004">Patrick</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT
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