• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 07:54:10 -0400

At 11:35 AM +0100 6/16/01, Peter Flynn wrote:

>For reinventing wheels, certainly. But outside the USA, where net
>access costs real money and line speeds are often limited, size
>does matter...a lot.
>

Which is why you gzip things before sending them. XML files compress 
very well. There's no point to spending months hand-optimizing the 
markup in a non-standard, illegible way when you still won't get the 
files as small as you would by taking five seconds to run them 
through gzip.
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