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Re: Free Tool for Efficient XML Data Compression

• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
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• Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:37:05 +0800

 From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
 
>>HIGHLIGHT. It is known that XML files tend to be larger than files in
>>application specific data formats.
>
>
>While XMill sounds interesting, I really have to take issue with this 
>statement.  I've seen no evidence that XML based, uncompressed file 
>formats are larger than the corresponding binary file formats. This 
>is a common fear about XML but I have not seen it borne out in my 
>tests. For instance, my 700K, very verbose baseball statistics 
>example is more than two megabytes in both FileMaker 3 and Microsoft 
>Excel.
 
I think he means files with various kinds of minimization
(tag omission, short-tags, eg </>, NET tags eg <xxx/.../ ) and 
home-made markup languages optimised for specific information
types.

Rick Jelliffe


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