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A WAP gateway does a binary tokenizing compression bit on the original WML, that results in astonishing compression. Don't know how that applies to your comments, but anecdotally, I've seen (and heard about) pretty good compression simply by using HTTP 1.1 and turning compression on. Obviously, this doesn't help if the XML transport isn't over HTTP (semaphore, anyone?). I'd be curious what people think about it--without, as you say, involving the wire protocol. Is it really necessary to map a specific token to a specific element (for example)? I suppose that it would allow a user to de-tokenize the document, returning it to some semblance of readability. But this could be done in a particular implementation, if needed, by referencing some external document map, couldn't it? Of course, the tokenized XML gets tricky if there are external schemas, DTD's or other XML,..how do you map the elements in the schema to the same elements in the XML, after they've been tokenized? Or did I miss the point...? Curiously, Mike Sharp "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> on 09/26/2000 01:01:00 PM To: xml-dev@x... cc: (bcc: Mike Sharp/Lante) Subject: Binary XML Raising an old horse, possibly dead: Has a standard XML binary token set, possibly based on the InfoSet to enable application to different XML vocabularies been created? Or is the thinking still that this side of the wireless protocols, zipping/unzipping is still sufficient given modem support? Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
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