I am using the Jabber XML Parser, In Australia i connect my Palm via a
mobile phone to the internet, It contacts a Server in Chicago.
I can get a round trip from My Palm, Palm XLM Parser, Mobile Phone (IR), to
My Australian ISP, Chicago, and to my PC, then all the way back again in
less time than it takes for me to twist my head from the palm to the PC. I
am very happy/ Very suprised with the Performance. I don't know what it
would be like in other countries.
Regards
Amleth
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From: "The Armadillo With The Mask" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: Why XML?
> Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > --On 08 July 2001 11:07 -0700 The Armadillo With The Mask
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Jimi Malcolm wrote:
> >>
> >>> What would someone use it for on the Palm? How would a database
> >>> interact
> >>> with it? Would the XML records be put into database records according
> >>> to a DTD?
> >>
> >>
> >> I would say that you would use XML not directly on the Palm, but as a
> >> format to translate to for the Palm. A likely application would be to
> >> take an SQL database and use an XML translation layer to format answers
> >> to queries into the format your Palm database uses and send that data
to
> >> the Palm.
> >
> >
> > That is a classical overkill of technology, why bother converting from
> [...]
>
> > ports of SQL servers vary... Bearing in mind that Palm's average heap
> > size is about 3k, ask yourself if XML is really a way to go... Yes, I
> > know you can change it, before you start pointing it out...
>
> This is another question entirely, the answer to which, I agree, needs
> to be asked beforehand, but this was not his original question. He was
> asking for examples, I gave one. Please see the bottom part of my reply
> below. I would agree that an XML parser probably does not belong on a
> Palm (or even Pocket PC). Given the response time I get from most remote
> wireless apps, I shudder at the thought of the delay something like an
> XML parser would introduce into the information retrieval/display cycle.
>
> >
> >
> >>> I've been looking at a lot of XML pages and I understand the markup
but
> >>> am not sure if I have a use for it
> >>
> >>
> >> It's probably not for you right away then. It's one of those things
> >> where you certainly have every advantage to gain from learning about
and
> >> becoming familiar with, but will only become truly useful and
worthwhile
> >> mastering when you have an actual application for it.
> >
> >
> > There are also a thousand of different ways of resolving a problem and
> > while XML might be one of them, it does not have to be the right one or
> > the most efficient one... XML requires a parser, and like most parsers,
> > you need speed+memory, the exact two things that are limited on palm...
> > Most importantly, watch out for defying the whole point by using a
> > technology just because it exists... The most common example of such are
>
> This is precisely what I was saying, what made you think otherwise?
>
> 'dillo
>
>
>
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