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RE: "Binary XML" proposals
- From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:31:13 -0700
At 07:35 10-04-2001, Al Snell wrote:
>In *my* binary XML format project
Therein, I think, lies the rub.
As you noted, any binary XML format must contain exactly as much
information as the text form. That means that a sufficiently good
compression algorithm combined with the text form will be as compact as the
directly binary form. On the other hand, if I get "XML", I can open it,
examine it, and in the absence of any other information, take a pretty good
guess at its meaning (as Walter Perry is so fond of pointing out). If I
get compressed data in some well-known form, like gzip, I can uncompress it
pretty easily. If I get Al's Binary Structure Format, what the heck do I
do with it? The drawbacks seem prohibitive and the benefits minimal.
-Chris
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