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Re: Data streams

• To: tedd <tedd@s...>
• Subject: Re: Data streams
• From: Liam Quin <liam@w...>
• Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:55:00 -0500
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• In-reply-to: <p06200700bddbac191cdf@[192.168.0.100]>
• References: <200412062351.CBO83026@m...> <1102396520.41b53c686b6f1@65.39.203.11> <p06200700bddbac191cdf@[192.168.0.100]>
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On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:35:46PM -0500, tedd wrote:
> This file compressed down to 4.7 Megs in a zip file, which I believe 
> uses a Huffman compression technique.

Note that "zip" (also known as pkzip) and "gzip" (GNU zip) use
different compression methods.  It's gzip that's generally used with
XML -- zip stores the filename and other metadata at the end of the
file, which doesn't stream very well.

Try, for example, gzip -9 on your file.

Liam


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Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/

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