README.md

XML Format

This format was put together mostly to prove that we could. It is a prototype, and highly undesirable for many reasons.

The current format looks something of this sort, for Foo(name="Josh", age=13), you would get:

<structure>
  <field name="name">
    <primitive>Josh</primitive>
  </field>
  <field name="age>
    <primitive>13</primitive>
  </field>
</structure>

As you can see, this format COULD be optimised a lot.

TODOS

• Optimise/minimize the output format.
• Define a DTD/XSD for our serialization format.
• See if there's ANYTHING remotely efficient in parsing (SAX seems slow)
• Look into encoding Scala types as URIs/schema directly.