[xsde-users] Polymorphic data model and custom binary streams -- doe not seem to work right.

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Nikita,

Nikita Visnevski <nikita_visnevski at hotmail.com> writes:

> it is actually funny to me that nobody asked this from XSD/e.  The whole
> reason why I need it is because the experimental code that I am writing
> needs to run on the real-time embedded device, and compressing xml streams
> is exactly what I need in this application.  I want the data exchange
> packets going to and coming from the device to be as small as possible.  It
> is a bit counter-intuitive to me that people wanted it in XSD, but not in
> XSD/e.

I probably wasn't very clear here. Plenty of people are using the binary
representation in situations similar to yours. It is that none of them
seem to also use polymorphism. I guess in such "tight" cases most people
prefer to keep things as simple as possible.

Boris