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At 4:06 PM +0100 7/25/03, Robin LaFontaine wrote: >There was a paper in this area by Daniel Winkowski (Mitre Corp) at >XML 2002 in Baltimore, with the title, "XML Sizing and Compression >Study for Military Wireless Data" [1]. Conclusion was as far as I >remember from the presentation: XML+compression is best! > I requested the original data for this paper when it was first published. The authors were unwilling to provide it. Apparently it's proprietary. Thus it was impossible to either verify or disprove their conclusions. Evven assuming there results were accurate, it was not possible to determine the nature of the documents they tested. Thus I could not determine in what domains their results were likely to be significant. It was not possible to determine what characteristics of their data led to their results, and whether these results were likely to be reproducible for the types of documents I (or anyone else) works with. I hope that the people reviewing submissions for the W3C workshop will require that all original data be made publicly and freely available to all interested parties so that results can be inspected, checked, verified, and so forth. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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