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- From: "Jeffrey E. Sussna" <jes@kuantech.com>
- To: "'XML-DEV'" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:38:15 -0800
Folks,
Having started a heavily philosophical thread about coherent standards, I want to ask a much more practical question. I am designing an XML schema for use in an environment that is extremely bandwidth sensitive. I can gain significant size reductions by representing things as attributes rather than sub-elements. Here is an example:
<session><id>25</id><type>Q</type><num>15</num></session>
57 bytes
as opposed to
<session id="25" type="Q" num="15"/>
36 bytes
Here's the question: does anyone know of any gotchas in using attributes instead of elements? Parsing issues, etc.?
TIA,
Jeff
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