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This is not compression...

Compressing XML doesn't solve the problem that a binary XML format does. In fact, compressing XML would do the opposite of what a binary format is needed for.

XML is verbose and has a lot of characters to represent a tag. An application (embedded or otherwise) must process all of those characters and evaluate them to understand the structure of the data. Processing all of those characters is a major waste of CPU time. A single symbol could represent the entire tag name. This has the side affect of also reducing the size of XML documents, but it's not compression.

Binary XML is about speed of processing, not document size. GZip solves document size.

-Bryan

Posted by: prime21   Posted on: 03/23/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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