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  • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: xom-interest <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] SOAP stacks
  • Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:18:40 -0400

Steve Loughran wrote:

Agreed. A better solution would be for XML parsers to be able to
handle arbitrary large incoming data by letting you provide a factory
for storing big values that could be used to stream to a cache. It
would be more general purpose.

Actually that sounds pretty special purpose to me. There just aren't that many reasonable use cases that have such large values in the first place. A lot of the whole XOP/MTOM/SOAP mess seems to derive from the principle that everything should be stored in an XML document. I don't hold to that principle. There are some things that just don't belong in XML, and large binary files like JPEGs and MPEGs are some of them. You'd be better off storing both the XML and the binary data in some sort of archive format like a zip rather than trying to treat it as one thing. This is is essentially what OpenOffice does, and it works pretty well without unnecessarily contorting the nature of XML and XML APIs.

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