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   Re: [xml-dev] Binary XML == "spawn of the devil" ?

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On 2003.07.25 11:52, Paul Spencer wrote:

>  One of my customers had been using a highly optimized (in their  
> opinion)  binary format for certain message types for many years. The 
> IT  department  wanted to go XML, the users didn't for performance 
> reasons.
> 
>  They tried XML down the wire with very simple compression and found  
> that  they were transferring data faster than previously.


I can also back this up anecdotally.  Having gone to the effort of 
implementing the WAP forum's WBXML format with a customised dictionary 
of element names for my application, I doscovered that simple gzip 
compression using libz gave far better results.  If I primed the 
compressor with a dictionary of expected element names, there was an 
even more significant improvement.

Regards
Brian




 

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