- From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:01:28 +0200
- To: discuss@apps.ietf.org
At 15.30 -0400 01-04-17, <don@lexmark.com> wrote: >Tell me about it!!!!! But if it doesn't use XML it isn't kewl and >therefore is >unacceptable! I proposed binary and was shot down immediately by the >"politically correct" XML! I made a test, where I encoded the same information using ASN.1, ABNF (RFC822 style) and XML. You can find it at http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/abook/asn-1-xml-compare.pdf I compared how many octets had to be sent to transmit the same information in some different formats: Relative Size Encoding 100 ASN.1-PER 175 ASN.1-BER 550 ABNF, RFC822 style 830 XML When shown such results, people often say "but XML can be packed". So I tried packing the XML using the ZIP format. Small blocks of data became longer, not shorter, when packed. So packing, at least using ZIP, will not make XML more efficient except for rather large files. -- Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/
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