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Martin Gleeson wrote: > This is the one concern I have with XLF. I already do the above with my > web log analysis tool, pwebstats. And that's the problem - for example, > the logs from our proxy server are 600Mb per week, gzipped, -9, and > increasing. Whilst one of my next tasks is to have pwebstats handle > incremental updates, it still shows the scope of the problem, especially > for those who may need to keep a permanent copy of their logs for whatever > reason. An order of magnitude increase in size creates difficulties when > a feature of many logfile formats is representing the necessary information > in the smallest reasonable space. I understand your problem. However, even a 10-fold increase in uncompressed size will *not* translate into a 10-fold increase in compressed size, because most of the added material will be intensely repetitive: tags, attribute names, markup characters. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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