Re: [phpGroupWare-developers] SyncML interface, code release 1

[Dave Hall]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 12:33 +0200, Johan Gunnarsson wrote:
> On 7/18/07, Guillaume Courtois <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > * WBXML support. A binary XML format heavily used by mobile devices to
> > > reduce bandwith. Still looking for solutions to this. I have been
> > > eyeing the WBXML PECL extension, but it has some drawbacks.
> >
> > I have a php pimplementation of that, but it still needs some work. I'll be
> > happy to help, unfortunately I'm on holidays saturday. Do you want me to 
> > send
> > you the php lib file ?
> >
> 
> Cool. Please send it over and I'll have a look at it.
> 
> What I'm actually is looking for is something that can write WBXML
> directly, so I don't have to first write XML and then convert.

I was doing a google search to learn more about the WBXML format so I
could suggest which approach is likely to be the best in terms of speed
of development and code maintainability.

I am still not sure, but I did find
http://www.devx.com/xml/article/16754 which is a general discussion, and
links to http://www.devx.com/xml/article/16757 which discusses using
java to do the parsing on the fly

For now, I would suggest the following approach:

* Grab gugux's code

* Check if the input is wbxml if so convert it to xml (and back again on
the way out)

* Later benchmark the PECL code vs gugux's code if the PECL version is
measurably quicker, include a check for the PECL module, if it is loaded
and use it

* Evaluate parsing it on the fly

Cheers

Dave


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