Andy Clark wrote:
 > I think we should stop using the "it's
 > experimental so it's ok to break everyone" line
 > and start seriously considering the impact of
 > such changes on its user base.

Do we actually have any data showing how big this user base is? I know 
there are many Xerces2 users out there. But how many depend on XNI? 
We're only talking about people who've developed specific parsers or 
applications that don't use SAX or DOM.

 > And we're doing all of this for a 6%
 > gain on files larger than 32K? Seems a bit much.
 > I'm sure we could find 6% somewhere in the impl
 > without changing XNI.

If we can find 6% somewhere else we should do that too, not instead. :-)
-- 
Arnaud  Le Hors - IBM, XML Standards Strategy Group / W3C AC Rep.


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