Re: LANG: VRML 1.x Binary Format Proposal
Jan Hardenbergh ([email protected])
Wed, 31 May 95 11:10:00 E
> >And we should bear expansion in mind. Extension nodes will (by
> >definition) not be part of the standard, so they won't have
> >predefined tokens. We should chew on how to handle them. We
> >could run them in full ASCII, or have some kind of prelude that
> >defines (for the duration of the file) the token for that
> >keyword, or maybe something else. There are numerous ways we
> >could deal, but we will need to choose one.
>
> Perhaps we should have a "DEF range" of tokens that can be dynamically
> allocated by the VRML binary-izer. Then we can explore "reference by
token"
> options.
As long as we can always fall back to ASCII. One token should be NULL
TERMINATED ASCII string follows. We might want to stick with 1 byte
tokens and be stingy about allocating them. For example, leave isA as
ASCII since it is less common.
-Jan