• To: tbray@t... (Tim Bray)
• Subject: Re: MSXML DOM Special Chars Less Than 32
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:54:00 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: amyzing@t... (Amelia A Lewis), julian.reschke@g... (Julian Reschke), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3C9CB8C4.6030404@t...> from "Tim Bray" at Mar 23, 2002 09:17:56 AM

Tim Bray scripsit:

> I agree with the leading sentences.  As for the last, Base64 encodes
> 3 bytes as 4, thus incurring exactly 33% overhead.  Whether that
> is considered "immense" depends on your application scenario. -Tim

It also invokes the overhead, less quantifiable but in some cases
more important, of being human-unreadable.  Remember the tale of
the 1860 and 1960 U.S. Census data.

-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@r...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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