xml-dev - RE: RFC: Attributes and XML-RPC

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@medicaldataservice.de>]

I agree :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Tyler Baker [mailto:tyler@infinet.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 1:55 PM
To: reschke@medicaldataservice.de
Cc: Mark Nutter; xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject: Re: RFC: Attributes and XML-RPC

Julian Reschke wrote:

 I would expect that gzip sees the attribute as      ="    name    "while it sees elements as     <    name>    </    name>Meaning three substrings for attributes, while 4 substrings for elements, where only 1 of them occurs twice.Seems that the corrected benchmark proves that my surprise was not without reason :-) (posting attached again).

Right after I sent off that email I said to myself in effect said "doh". Yes you are right, nevertheless the difference in the results between using elements or attributes when it comes down to document size after compression is neglible (-: