Re: Flex & RPG

If you think about how a parser works it has to check each and every
character to see if it has discovered data, a begin delimiter, and end
delimiter, etc. The less characters it has to check the better IMO.

Though I would agree that short XML element names help a lot. On that note,
so does using attributes vs. elements.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Aaron Bartell
I think the key is to NOT use something as verbose as XML...

I've begun to wonder how much of an impact the <tag></tag> delimiters have
on performance, really. It's a little more verbose than JSON. But not that
much. And you can use short tag names, as an option.

<CUSTID>1234567890</CUSTID>

A Flex application would have no trouble mapping an XML element like that
to form elements. I know that Adobe has been promoting a compressed binary
format for data interchange, which is evidently more streamlined than XML.
On the other hand, it seems that you could just use HTTP compression to
convert XML into compressed binary format to reduce time on the wire
(transmission time).

-Nathan.




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