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At 15:42 10-04-2001, Al Snell wrote: >On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > > As you noted, any binary XML format must contain exactly as much > > information as the text form. > >Wrong. Exactly as much *useful* information. The binary format can miss >out a whole load of redundant cruft that helps fleshlings follow the plot, >but has to be located and discarded by a computer. This is what "information" means, in the entropic or information sense. Compression science is about trying to find the smallest representation of the same information (or, in domain-specific cases like JPEG or MPEG, determining what information is OK to lose when the end processor will be a human brain). What you're working on comes down to an efficient compression algorithm... and those already exist. You can implement compression on a filesystem or over the wire regardless of format; it's not clear to me where the win is in precompressing. -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, XML Consultant DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA
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