- From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:04:30 +0200
- To: discuss@apps.ietf.org
At 15.40 -0400 01-04-17, Keith Moore wrote: >the folks who blindly recommend XML for everything are the ones who should >be lined up and shot - perhaps not with lethal weapons (though it is >tempting) but maybe with big darts that have "stupid" flags attached. >(to warn everyone else of their presence) 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 At 08.11 -0700 01-04-23, Jim Gettys wrote: >While I agree with your sentiments, remember that XML run through compression >ends up alot more compact than one naively thinks, as the tags compress >very well indeed. 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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