[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- To: "Hartmut Liefke" <liefke@seas.upenn.edu>, xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 19:26:40 -0500
>
>
>HIGHLIGHT. It is known that XML files tend to be larger than files in
>application specific data formats.
While XMill sounds interesting, I really have to take issue with this
statement. I've seen no evidence that XML based, uncompressed file
formats are larger than the corresponding binary file formats. This
is a common fear about XML but I have not seen it borne out in my
tests. For instance, my 700K, very verbose baseball statistics
example is more than two megabytes in both FileMaker 3 and Microsoft
Excel.
+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
| Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer |
+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
| The XML Bible (IDG Books, 1999) |
| http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/books/bible/ |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764532367/cafeaulaitA/ |
+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
| Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ |
| Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ |
+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
unsubscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
|
