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Weigh-in please - Template format: XML and/or Compact Notation
Jim Northey / Jordan and Jordan
18 Apr 2006 11:59PM ETWe need to finalize how templates are represented as part of FAST 1.1 (the documentation release that clarifies the current FAST 1.0 functionality) and includes the Session Control Protocol v1.0 that is being reviewed now.
There are a couple of proposals the XML proposal from Pantor that is documented in the TD specification. And the compact notation that initially appeared in Implicit Tagging and is represented in the FAST Basic User's Guide.
So we have some choices: XML Only? Compact Notation Only? XML + Compact Notation as alternatives.
My view is I don't have a problem with XML and a compact notation version. I think there are some reasonable arguments against having to have XML as part of the market data application. Probably equal arguments for it.
Either way MDOWG decides to go - my recommendation is that we uncouple the definition of templates from a specific implementation, be it XML or Compact Notation.
What do others think? There are arguments that Compact Notation does not have all the capabilities required. There are views that XML is a bit to verbose for high volume market data applications, even though they are only being used to define templates and are not being used to transmit data.
Weigh-in please - Template format: XML and/or Compact Notation
Jim Northey / Jordan and Jordan 18 Apr 2006 11:59PM ET
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