[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Binary XML == "spawn of the devil" ?
Paul Spencer wrote: > One of my customers had been using a highly optimized (in their opinion) > binary format for certain message types for many years. The IT department > wanted to go XML, the users didn't for performance reasons. > > They tried XML down the wire with very simple compression and found that > they were transferring data faster than previously. In which case, they could have tried using simple compression on top of their existing binary format and got the same speed increase, and probably more, without needing to rewrite their existing format code to do XML instead! You're saying that they changed to another format *and* added compression and it got more compact, so the original format is inferior?!? ABS
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