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- From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>
- To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:37:05 +0800
From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
>>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.
I think he means files with various kinds of minimization
(tag omission, short-tags, eg </>, NET tags eg <xxx/.../ ) and
home-made markup languages optimised for specific information
types.
Rick Jelliffe
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