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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:40
> To: msc@mitre.org; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Cc: winkowski@mitre.org; msc@mitre.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XML Binary and Compression
>
>
> At 9:27 AM -0500 3/10/03, msc@mitre.org wrote:
> >Rusty,
> >
> >The corresponding paper can be found here:
> >
> >http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml02/dx_xml02/papers/06-02
> -04/06-02-
> >04.pd
>
> Thanks. The key point I gather from reading the paper is:
>
> Because of the sensitive nature of the study data, the
> element names used in the sample XML data cannot be
> discussed in this paper. It can be noted, however, that
> the tag names used were unabbreviated, descriptive
> terms.
>
> As mentioned above, the precise structure and content of
> the samples cannot be presented here. However, the
> general structure and data types of the XML documents
> used for the study can be discussed. These are
> illustrated in Figure 1, below. Although the study data
> is not available to the reader, this depiction should
> indicate that the XML sample structure and content is
> sufficiently rich for the study purposes.
>
> In other words the raw data is not available, so it's impossible for
> anybody to independently verify these results. Perhaps more
> importantly, we can't tell whether the data set used to produce these
> results is similar to the sorts of XML data we're working with or
> not. We don't know whether these results would likely be reproducible
> in our own environments.
How expensive would it be for the authors of this paper to create a new
set of test documents vaguely similar (in terms of some metrics) to the
"unpublishable" ones, and then re-run the tests and publish the new
results? Actually, the new test data wouldn't need to resemble the
current test data - how much it does is up to the authors. But the new
results would be more useful and interesting than the current ones.
Alessandro Triglia
OSS Nokalva
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