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>Interesting paper from MITRE
>
> http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml02/slides/winkowski/winkowski.pdf
>
Interesting, but there's really not enough information in the
PowerPoint slides to fairly judge the work. In particular, I'd really
want to see the actual data they used. They started with the
assumption that typical binary files were necessarily smaller than
the equivalent XML, something that is decidedly untrue in my
experience.
Test set A was fabricated by the authors, and I suspect they paid a
lot more attention to making it small than anybody actually does in
practice. Test set B was "derived directly from binary sample data"
but they don't seem to ever show you what this binary sample data was
or what its XML encoding was.
I look forward to a more complete paper that provides sufficient
information to verify and reproduce the results. Will one be
published anywhere?
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