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Tim Bray wrote: > Er.. base64 will *always* increase the size of your binary, > by exactly one third. Which is not too bad, actually -Tim Also not too bad, since while the binary may be larger, the section of the XML containing this data will be highly compressible. Every value is essentially within a 6-bit range, and every 8th bit is zero. A simple compression scheme based on this info alone would offset most of the expansion. The content transfer encoding/compression that may be employed in, say, an HTTP transmission should do much better than this. - Mike _____________________________________________________________________________ mike j. brown, software engineer at | xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/ webb.net in denver, colorado, USA | personal: http://hyperreal.org/~mike/
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