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Elliotte, You'd be surprised the number of companies that still use floppy disks to send out data. So many find they can use CSV because it fits on a floppy, and are unable to use xml because it won't fit. I don't think it's a perfect world. but that's just how it is. Quoting Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>: > david.lyon@c... wrote: > > > >>>In XML 1.0, we have a larger file with no type information > >>>and in the computergrid format, we have type information as > >>>well as a saving of around 35% or 2,680,000 bytes. > >>> > >> > >>It's smaller, though somehow I doubt that's important.... > > > > > > Well, it can be important in a business context. People in > > business don't have unlimited time. If a pricelist or any > > document takes too long to load up... they'll simply > > give the ctrl-alt-delete and give up. They have no love > > for the computers, I can assure you. > > In 2005 I find it hard to believe any business computer or network would > notice or care about a 2.5 MB savings. Perhaps if you were working in an > embedded environment, but in that case you're probably not using XML > anyway. > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... > XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! > http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
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