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At 09:43 AM 8/10/98 -0400, David Megginson wrote: >Sam Gentile writes: > > > Also, we have been hearing rumors of a "short" XML notation. Is > > > there one? We have a need to reduce the size of our buffers. > >No, there is no such thing. XML's parent, SGML, included extensive >facilities for markup minimisation and has suffered badly for it, >since SGML tools are far too difficult to write (there is still not a >single Java-based SGML parser, beside probably more than a dozen >Java-based XML parsers). > >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. Cheers, Dave Carlson 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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