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Re: XML / HTML Transport size

• To: robin.berjon@e...
• Subject: Re: XML / HTML Transport size
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 09:28:23 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: jcowan@r... (John Cowan), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3DD8F7D2.7040009@e...> from "Robin Berjon" at Nov 18, 2002 03:23:14 PM

Robin Berjon scripsit:

> > A variety of
> > small-scale studies have shown that general-purpose compression is generally
> > as good as, or better than, some scheme that knows it's compressing XML.
> 
> Err, quite the opposite.  XMill beats gzip.

This one is news to me, but I'm looking into it now.

> BiM/BiX requires a schema, 

Yes: by "knows it's compressing XML" I meant to imply "and doesn't know
anything more than that".

> but there are many ways in which a schema can be deduced, even with just 
> a raw document (and it can be done more intelligently than most tools 
> that deduces schema information from instances I've seen out there do 
> it).

Pointer(s)?

> If by extreme you mean "extremely 
> limited compared to your average desktop or server" or "requiring 
> extremely big payloads" then you're right, but if you meant "rare" then 
> I'm afraid your point doesn't hold: small devices consuming XML are 
> crawling all over the place :)

I did mean the former.

> In addition to that, having a single standardized way of binary-encoding 
> XML means that industry-specific standard organisations can stop wasting 
> their time creating ad hoc binary encodings for their XML data that will 
> fall apart with the first need for change, and use tried and shared 
> technology instead.

Always a Good Thing.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
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with the giants on whose shoulders we stand."
        --Gerald Holton

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