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If reducing bandwidth is the main requirement then I would have thought gzip-ing would be an ideal solution. Standard format, and the codec could be put inline fairly transparently (though didn't someone mention http 1.1 supports compression itself????) : XML -> gzip -> http or whatever -> gzip -> XML API's for gzip are readily available - e.g. GZIPInputStream etc in core Java 2. --- Danny Ayers http://www.isacat.net <- -----Original Message----- <- From: Christopher R. Maden [mailto:crism@m...] <- Sent: 11 April 2001 02:31 <- To: xml-dev@l... <- Subject: RE: "Binary XML" proposals <- <- <- At 07:35 10-04-2001, Al Snell wrote: <- >In *my* binary XML format project <- <- Therein, I think, lies the rub. <- <- As you noted, any binary XML format must contain exactly as much <- information as the text form. That means that a sufficiently good <- compression algorithm combined with the text form will be as <- compact as the <- directly binary form. On the other hand, if I get "XML", I can open it, <- examine it, and in the absence of any other information, take a <- pretty good <- guess at its meaning (as Walter Perry is so fond of pointing out). If I <- get compressed data in some well-known form, like gzip, I can <- uncompress it <- pretty easily. If I get Al's Binary Structure Format, what the <- heck do I <- do with it? The drawbacks seem prohibitive and the benefits minimal. <- <- -Chris <- -- <- Christopher R. Maden, XML Consultant <- DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training <- <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > <- PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA <- <- <- ------------------------------------------------------------------ <- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS <- <http://www.oasis-open.org> <- <- The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ <- <- To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word <- "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l... <-
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