On 26 mrt 2009, at 10:04, Christopher Morrow wrote:
A quick summary was that processing time and storage expenses are tradeoffs that XML formatting may bring as opposed to the current binary formatting in MRT of the data.
I think one point that was made that XML is self-documenting while binary requires out-of-band documentation. If we're making a standard that's not really relevant as the standard will provide the documentation of the format...
One advantage of binary would be that you can easily read it directly from disk in a fairly random order without first having to decompress.
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