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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: QDom as an alternative to KConfig?
From:       aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () rz ! tu-ilmenau ! de>
Date:       2001-04-03 16:45:41
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On Tuesday 03 April 2001 18:21, Richard Moore wrote:
> Harri Porten wrote:
>
> I've been working on something related to this - a standard binary
> representation for XML. It's designed to allow it to support the
> standard XML APIs (DOM and SAX) but to use a very compact and easy
> to parse data stream. It has all the usual XML features (tags, attrs,
> DTDs, namespaces etc.) but much lower overhead (it uses a variable
> length id->name mapping so it scales nicely even to big DTDs).
>
> Ultimately I'm planning to make it possible to compile a DTD to a
> known BTD to provide even more powerful features (and to remove
> the need for symbol storage if the DTD is available at both the
> source and destination locations). I don't have this part
> implemented yet.
>
> As well as being able to support things like an XML Sycoca I think
> this could give a big performance increase to XML mechansims like
> XMLRPC. Currently I have some basic code in Java and C++, and the
> beginning of a white paper for the format. If people are interested
> I can stick it online somewhere.

Very cool !
Maybe we can use this to speed up xmlgui :-)
I'm currently trying to do something about this, and one problem I have is 
that I can't add custom data members to the QDomNode's in the tree, where I 
could store hash values for the strings.

Bye
Alex

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