Re: [xml-dev] Re: A question about the future of efficient XML

[noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com]

Robin Berjon writes:

> Everyone wants XML for these (in a zip archive, but all the same), 

I think that reference to zip needs to be a bit more than parenthetical, 
since the fact that zip offers not just a hierarchical container but also 
standardized means of compression is more than a detail in this 
discussion.  I'm not saying you can't come up with reasons why someone 
>might< justify storing a W3C EXI binary stream for an office document in 
a (presumably uncompressed) zip stream, but the benefits of doing so are 
less than obvious to me once you've bought into zip, unless you think that 
the performance characteristics of EXI compress/decompress are much better 
suited to office documents than the zip approach that's been adopted by 
both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office (as far as I know).

Noah

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