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Re: Binary XML == "spawn of the devil" ?

• To: Brian Stafford <brian@s...>
• Subject: Re: Binary XML == "spawn of the devil" ?
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 19:12:22 +0200
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Brian Stafford wrote:
> I can also back this up anecdotally.  Having gone to the effort of 
> implementing the WAP forum's WBXML format with a customised dictionary 
> of element names for my application, I doscovered that simple gzip 
> compression using libz gave far better results.  If I primed the 
> compressor with a dictionary of expected element names, there was an 
> even more significant improvement.

That was going to be thus, WBXML is a very simplistic approach to the 
problem. I had a chance to talk with a number of mobile players at 3GPP 
two weeks ago, and the reason it did interest them (and why bInfosets 
still does) is because gzip is apparently costly on the battery life (it 
requires the CPU to run at full speed whereas they often try to slow it 
down).

--
Robin Berjon

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