In a minority opinion, Eve Maler and Paul Grosso suggest that "that XPointer would benefit from offering the option of a much more modest feature set."
Maler and Grosso propose something much smaller than the complete XPointer proposal, "along the lines of our FIXptr proposal (W3C member only), that accords with the deployment and implementation patterns seen to date."
FIXptr has apparently seen independent implementation, at much lower cost than full XPointer implementation:
"It may be worth noting that several of the vendors involved in
W3C Working Draft 25 July 2007
Abstract
This Working Group Note presents measurement results of various high-performance XML interchange encoding formats and their associated processors, made by the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group. The measurements have been conducted following the recommendations of the XML Binary Characterization (XBC) Working Group. In particular, this draft covers measurements of the properties of "compactness", "processing efficiency" and "roundtrip support", as defined by the XBC WG. We start by describing the
listen Wednesday April 12, 2006 1:49AM
by Rick Jelliffe in Opinion
Last week on XML-DEV I suggested that there should be a competition with prize money to stimulate development of faster XML parsers suitable for high transaction work. Elliotte Harold even quoted my (not original) Open Source is not a free lunch, it is stone soup.
There are examples of industry consortia sponsoring such development: the OpenMP implementation contest for example. And groups such as OSDL offer fellowships to make sure strategic software is maintained.
At the
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