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On Thursday 25 September 2003 08:58, Sean McGrath wrote: > [Dennis Sosnoski] > > gzip performs a lossless compression. I use it with XML all > the time. Works great. I use it on the wire too with HTTP. > I've no problem with it, why would anyone have a problem given > that the XML is unharmed? > > Here is my simpletons guide to handling size in XML: Obviously size is not the only issue, loading performance appears to be at least as important to most people using binary infoset formats and gzip alone just increases the receivers loading costs. There is a good paper linked from http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cheney01compressing.html that discusses why compressing binary infoset representations can yield better compression results than gzip of XML. Kev.
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