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Hi, Here is another question of an ignorant person. How is the XML Data actually exchanged? Is it in its full glorious expanded form? If so, is it not a great loss of bandwidth? If not, I assume there are compression mechanisms available in the send and receive functions used by such programs which exchange XML data? Can someone please guide me on the current state of the art? I, coming from working on a protocol called SIGCOMP, feel strongly that an exchangeable compression decompression format may also be quite suitable for XML data exchange. Am I redreaming the wheel? Thanks Basudeb --- Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote: > > Somehow, to me, XML does not solve any more > problem > > than comma delimited files would do. > > If your problems are confined to simple tabular > data, then you can stick > quite happily with punched cards. Some of us need > more flexibility than > that. > > Don't forget that XML came from the world of > documents, and was subsequently > adopted by people who recognized that it was also a > good way of handling > complex data. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > > >
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