Re: EXI WG's inquiry about ISSUE-2050

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 14:04 +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:

> XSD couldn't capture context-dependent constraints.

XSD 1.1 has some support for this.


> 
> Note that this is experience from a while back. It's not impossible
> that in the meantime XML Schema 1.1 may have addressed a number of
> these issues. Also, the lack of interoperability in XML Schema
> processors did exclude some more creative constructs that we looked at
> (which ones, I don't recall). That's something that ought to be a lot
> better today.

Yes, things are better today.

>  My experience with binarising SVG is that you gain most from custom
> codecs (or by changing the syntax, which is essentially the same) and
> less than you'd hope from the structural redundancy.

One difference (as of course you know) between EXI and some of the
others is that one could have e.g. a degooper that generated SAX events,
with nary a pointy bracket in sight.

Overall, using EXI with serialized HTML 5 might also be a worth-while
goal, including embedded mathml and svg.

Liam

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