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 3/26/2002 2:46:41 PM, "Nick Johnson" <arachnid@m...> wrote: >Hello All, > >I'm new to the xml-dev list, so please forgive (and point out) any stupid >mistakes :P Not by any means a stupid question, but a frequently asked (and not definitively answered) question. There are two issues - compression of XML to remove the "bloat" and saving a parsed data structure in binary form to reduce the overhead of re-parsing. The first issue is definitely one best handled by compression, but whether a generic compression such as gzip or a compression scheme that exploits the specific regularity of XML is still debated. Well, at least for wireless devices one can make a credible case that an XML-specific compression scheme is more efficient of the various limited resources on a wireless device. In general, though, you would be well-advised to not try to compress arbitrary text better than gzip can. You'll fail. The binary XML issue comes up every few months and generates a lot of dispute. The "mainstream" position seems to be that XML is really not all that hard to parse, the parsers are well-optimized, the overhead of doing the byte swapping and other binary format conversion to transfer parsed data from one platform to another outweighs any theoretical advantage of having a "compiled" form, and that the whole issue is a red herring. I expect that the holders of the minority view (Hi, Al!) will let you know their response. 
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