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If you are worried about file size, then compress your files. Tags, being short strings commonly used, compress really nicely with the common compression algorithms out there. I once did an experiment (to confirm one that Gavin Nicol had done) using a document with several thousand lines, each with one start-tag, end-tag pair and no content. I tried compressing this file with * no minimization * short end-tags * end-tag ommission The uncompressed file was something like 50K. The compressed files differed by only a few 100bytes from each other. The gains from short end-tags did not carry over into the compressed versions, and the compressed versions were so much smaller there seemed little contest. Having short-tag ommision can only compress a document by less than 50% at an improbable maximum (in the case of a document with not data, not attributes, no white-space, and incredibly long GIs). Compression is a far better approach. Rick Jelliffe xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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