From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2003-03-10T22:44:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Protocols


<jbritt@ruby-doc.org> wrote in message
news:NGEDJNFKAGDNDOIPFPBDGEIBDKAA.jbritt@ruby-doc.org...

> I can understand why some people prefer hand-editing YAML over XML, but
when used as a wire format the ease-of-editing factor
> becomes less important.

I agree with the ease-of.editing factor.
It is about overhead - YAML is more compact and handles more complex
structures more cleanly.
There is also the semi-binary XML format used on the WAP protocol.

But really, I'd like much more focus on ASN.1.
ASN.1 comes in various encoding forms. A study showed that although there
were processing overhead associated with the more compact formats, they were
still faster. Were are talking about shipping a request in a single small
packet that does not get scattered as opposed to wire and memory expensive
formats such as XML.
Problem is that ASN.1 isn't widely supported outside specific application
protocols such as encryption and multimedia.

Mikkel