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Thanks for your comments. I did go to this URL http://www.w3.org/TR/xbc-use-cases/ and found this to be a very good analysis of the real world. There is surely a case of XML compression. And to make it general, it should be a gzip/deflate kind of standard compression. My point was that we could try out the concepts of SIGCOMP, whereby a small UDVM is implemented at both ends and the decryption algorithm itself is sent along with the encrypted data, thus making the exchange totally immune to non-standard compressions. We have seen with DEFLATE algorithm, the decryption code is very small ( they are made for Mobile devices normally) and very fast. I was exploring if this could be implemented as a standard in XML data exchange too. Basudeb --- Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...> wrote: > On 10/17/05, basudeb gupta <basudeb0001@y...> > wrote: > > > > > How is the XML Data actually exchanged? Is it in > its > > full glorious expanded form? If so, is it not a > great > > loss of bandwidth? > > > > If not, I assume there are compression mechanisms > > available in the send and receive functions used > by > > such programs which exchange XML data? Can someone > > please guide me on the current state of the art? > > This is not an ignorant question, it's an xml-dev > permathread. There > is a widespread complaint that XML is "bloated and > slow" and that this > is a problem that needs to be remedied. There is an > equally > widespread belief (enshrined in the XML spec) that > terseness is not a > design criterion, that human readability and > exploitable redundancy > trumps machine efficiency, and that the "binary XML" > cure is worse > than the inefficiency disease. > > The "efficient interchange" camp seems to be winning > this year, at > least at W3C. There will probably be a working > group formed soon to > develop an Efficient XML Interchange Recommendation > that is > (supposedly) going to achieve a wide range of use > cases. There is a > lot of debate about this within member-only W3C > mailing lists (and I'm > on record as opposing it). Still, the proponents and > the W3C have gone > to some lengths to ensure that the evidence of > whatever improvements > in efficiency are achieved and whatever threats to > interoperability > are uncovered are made public before the working > group's spec achieves > unstoppable momentum. > > Shameless plug: We've organized a panel discussion > at the XML 2005 > Conference (http://2005.xmlconference.org/ ) on > Efficient XML in which > people on all sides of this question have been > invited. Come to the > XML 2005 conference, listen to what these people > have to say, and > you'll have a chance to speak your piece during the > Q&A period and > lobby people for your point of view at the dinner > afterwards. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org > <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at > http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the > subscription > manager: > <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > >
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