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Re: Pushing all the buttons

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• Subject: Re: Pushing all the buttons
• From: Kevin Jones <kjouk@y...>
• Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:36:01 +0100
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On Thursday 25 September 2003 08:58, Sean McGrath wrote:
> [Dennis Sosnoski]
>
> gzip performs a lossless compression. I use it with XML all
> the time. Works great. I use it on the wire too with HTTP.
> I've no problem with it, why would anyone have a problem given
> that the XML is unharmed?
>
> Here is my simpletons guide to handling size in XML:

Obviously size is not the only issue, loading performance appears 
to be at least as important to most people using binary infoset 
formats and gzip alone just increases the receivers loading 
costs.

There is a good paper linked from 
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cheney01compressing.html that 
discusses why compressing binary infoset representations can 
yield better compression results than gzip of XML. 

Kev.

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