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>Interesting paper from MITRE > > http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml02/slides/winkowski/winkowski.pdf > Interesting, but there's really not enough information in the PowerPoint slides to fairly judge the work. In particular, I'd really want to see the actual data they used. They started with the assumption that typical binary files were necessarily smaller than the equivalent XML, something that is decidedly untrue in my experience. Test set A was fabricated by the authors, and I suspect they paid a lot more attention to making it small than anybody actually does in practice. Test set B was "derived directly from binary sample data" but they don't seem to ever show you what this binary sample data was or what its XML encoding was. I look forward to a more complete paper that provides sufficient information to verify and reproduce the results. Will one be published anywhere? -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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