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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Google, XML, and IDL

Google has stated that XML is not efficient enough to encode all data formats. To wit, it has resurrected the Interface Definition Language and binary format for data inter-change.

Googel-made code is available @ http://tinyurl.com/5d4bs5.

The product is called Protocol Buffers and is released under the Apache 2.0 open-source license.

Developers can define data structures using the definition language, producing .proto class files. Current language support is limited to C++. See Kenton Varda @ https://tinyurl.com/5hlyd9

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