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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > As you noted, any binary XML format must contain exactly as much > information as the text form. Wrong. Exactly as much *useful* information. The binary format can miss out a whole load of redundant cruft that helps fleshlings follow the plot, but has to be located and discarded by a computer. > That means that a sufficiently good > compression algorithm combined with the text form will be as compact as the > directly binary form. Only if the compression algorithm knows enough about XML to know which bits can be ignored. Which is what I'm proposing, basically. > 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. Dude, we covered this point... read the thread! > > -Chris > ABS -- Alaric B. Snell http://www.alaric-snell.com/ http://RFC.net/ http://www.warhead.org.uk/ Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software
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