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  • From: David Megginson <david@m...>
  • To: xml-dev@l...
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:27:08 -0500 (EST)

Michael Beddow writes:

 > I've been to papers where this was indeed explained as a
 > compressibility issue, and it sort of made sense at the time.
 > 
 > The apparent textual redundancy of xml tagging means
 > tokenising compressors can really get to work

I recall one of the presenters at XTech last year had been
experimenting with using a Java-serialized DOM rather than the source
XML document, and was surprised to find that the Java-serialized DOM
was both considerably larger than the *uncompressed* XML and
considerably slower to load.


All the best,


David

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