• From: "Paul Topping" <pault@xxxxxxxxxx>
• To: "Robin Berjon" <robin.berjon@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:30:38 -0700

That's why there's compression. It works a lot better than tag
minimization. For one thing, it compresses the content, not just the
structure. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Berjon [mailto:robin.berjon@e...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 6:51 PM
> To: Paul Topping
> Cc: XML Developers List
> Subject: Re:  Re: Recognizing the contribution of 
> the developers of XML
> 
> On Aug 30, 2006, at 01:39, Paul Topping wrote:
> > Also,
> > people were more concerned about how many bytes the files were on 
> > disk, although this was probably dumb even in the early 
> 80's in most 
> > applications.
> 
> It's unlikely to be an "on disk" problem nowadays, but there 
> are still quite a fair bunch of people worrying about how 
> many bytes an document is, and often for good reason.
> 
> -- 
> Robin Berjon
>     Senior Research Scientist
>     Expway, http://expway.com/
> 
> 
> 

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