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> >There are, however, alternatives: for example, you could compile the > >XML to a compact binary format for internal storage then decompile it > >back to a verbose format for export -- there's no requirement to store > >it internally as text. > > It's important to note that an XML stream can be very highly compresses with > standard tools like WinZIP. I have an XML file that's about 20K size, which > includes many repititions of a small number of tags. WinZIP produced 97% > compression on this file! > > The standard Java library includes a zip utility class for zipping/unzipping > streams, so it's possible to dramatically reduce transmission bandwidth > while retaining long, descriptive tag names. A linux software database index encoded with RDF was reduced from 1.6 MBytes to a bit more of 150 KBytes using "gzip -9". Daniel -- Daniel.Veillard@w... | W3C MIT/LCS NE43-344 | Today's Bookmarks : Tel : +1 617 253 5884 | 545 Technology Square | Linux, WWW, rpm2html, Fax : +1 617 258 5999 | Cambridge, MA 02139 USA | badminton, Kaffe, http://www.w3.org/People/W3Cpeople.html#Veillard | HTTP-NG and Amaya. 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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