• To: Liam Quin <liam@w...>
• Subject: Re: Binary XML == "spawn of the devil" ?
• From: Alaric B Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 17:10:55 +0100
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Liam Quin wrote:

>>How can you compare gzip and ASN.1? One's a function from bit strings to 
>>(ideally smaller) bit strings, one's a function from information to bit 
>>strings.
> 
> 
> I didn't compare them. 

Sorry - wasn't meaning to beat up on you - should have been "How can one 
compare gzip and ASN.1?" :-)

>>So compare XML to ASN.1's BER or PER, and gzipped XML to gzipped BER or 
>>PER.
> 
> That may indeed happen at the workshop.

Excellent!

> 
> Liam
> 

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