× The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.



Scott Klement wrote:
PCML doesn't even need to exist, IMHO. It's an overblown,
overengineered, overcomplicated way to do things. Simple embedded
signatures would be much more efficient than kludgy, limited, XML
documents.

But the caller has to know how the information should needs to be formatted for the called program.

Over engineered? Over complicated? Not from my perspective. It's a pretty straight forward mechanism for calling host programs using structured parameters.

Yeah, it's got some limitations, but does a fine job in general. I use it extensively.

If you need PCML for slow, cumbersome languages like Java, then have
it convert the binary object to PCML on-the-fly... it shouldn't be
that hard.

How does this make things faster? You'll have to connect to the system with the program information first to determine the parameter structure which is probably a lot slower than parsing XML once ... and ...

But having the compiler parse XML for every thing I call would really
slow things down, and what advantage would it offer?

You can serialize the XML to a file so the it doesn't have to be re-parsed every time.

david


As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

This thread ...

Follow-Ups:
Replies:

Follow On AppleNews
Return to Archive home page | Return to MIDRANGE.COM home page

This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].

Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.