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RE: RFC: Attributes and XML-RPC

• From: Blair Murri <BMurri@w...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:39:37 -0600

Why does my emailer do this?

	This was the: -----Original Message-----
> From:	Blair Murri [SMTP:BMurri@w...]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 23, 1999 12:19 PM
> To:	xml-dev@i...
> Subject:	RE: RFC: Attributes and XML-RPC
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Mark Nutter [SMTP:mnutter@f...]
> > Sent:	Thursday, September 23, 1999 6:34 AM
> > To:	Blair Murri; xml-dev@i...
> > Subject:	RE: RFC: Attributes and XML-RPC
> > 
> > Doh!  "Code in haste, debug in leisure."  Ok, here are the corrected
> > results:
> > 
> > $ ./make.pl
> > $ ls -l
> > total 14206
> > -rw-rw-r--   1 mnutter  mnutter   5811846 Sep 23 08:28 attrib.xml
> > -rw-rw-r--   1 mnutter  mnutter   8672170 Sep 23 08:28 child.xml
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mnutter  mnutter       999 Sep 23 08:26 make.pl
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mnutter  mnutter       976 Sep 22 13:16 make.pl~
> > $ gzip attrib.xml
> > $ gzip child.xml
> > $ ls -l
> > total 1332
> > -rw-rw-r--   1 mnutter  mnutter    670757 Sep 23 08:28 attrib.xml.gz
> > -rw-rw-r--   1 mnutter  mnutter    681080 Sep 23 08:28 child.xml.gz
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mnutter  mnutter       999 Sep 23 08:26 make.pl
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 mnutter  mnutter       976 Sep 22 13:16 make.pl~
> > 
> > So child.xml.gz is slightly larger than attrib.xml.gz (about 1.5%,
> > assuming my math isn't as bad as my coding).
> > 
> 
	And my comments started here:

> > That is what I would have expected.  But, performance may be more than
> > network transport.  I've got an app, where, for convenience, I have
> > wrapped MS's IE 5 MSXML parser, and I found a significant difference in
> > speed by placing stuff that there was only one of as an attribute
> instead
> > of a child element.  I don't know why yet, but the attributes where
> faster
> > (I don't know if that was "recording" speed or "retrieval" speed) than
> the
> > child elements using just that one parser.  Of course, your mileage may
> > vary.
> > 
> Blair L. Murri
> Sr. Programmer/etc.
> Wavo Corporation
> 

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