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Re: Xqueeze: Compact XML Alternative

• To: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Subject: Re: Xqueeze: Compact XML Alternative
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 12:27:13 +0100
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Alaric B. Snell wrote:
> My point was 
> about people comparing gzipped XML with $binary_format and then saying "See? 
> Why bother with the binary format? gzipped XML is smaller!".
> 
> My counterthrust being that the non-gzipped binary format will be much less 
> resource intensive to process, and not much more resource intensive to 
> transmit over the Internet; and if the latter is a real problem then gzipped 
> binary will be smaller and easier to process than gzipped xml, if you can 
> afford to go around gzipping things.

Oh I see, sorry I hadn't understood what your point was addressing. It is fairly 
rare that bin-xml will be larger than the gzip'd XML. Usually that's the worst 
case scenario (schema-less bin-xml will often produce results within -/+3% of 
gzip and it hasn't been optimised yet).

And of course you're right that when worst case does happen, there's still 
decoding speed, streaming, etc.

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Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
Research Engineer, Expway        http://expway.fr/
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    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
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    • From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
  • Re: Xqueeze: Compact XML Alternative
    • From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
  • Re: Xqueeze: Compact XML Alternative
    • From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>

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