- From: Carl Ellison <cme@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:35:55 -0700
- To: Christian Geuer-Pollmann <geuer-pollmann@nue.et-inf.uni-siegen.de>
- Cc: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 01:01 PM 10/17/2001 +0200, Christian Geuer-Pollmann wrote: >Hi all, > >just for your personal entertainment: > >http://www.eddf.org/ >http://www.globera.com/eddf.php3 > >Seems some people can't live without ASN.1 ;-)) > >Christian > Only 25% shorter than XML? Canonical S-expressions [CSEXP] (as used in SPKI/SDSI) is also a binary format, is 1:1 with a major subset of XML (see http://world.std.com/~cme/html/spki.html#XML), and is about 50% shorter. Then again, CSEXP is almost always shorter than traditional ASN.1 without any XML compatibility. Of course, %-shorter is strictly a function of the ratio of tags to content and is a pretty meaningless measurement apart from a real document. - Carl [P.S. for some reason, Netscape gets to the #XML tagged line above but IE doesn't.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBO817KnPxfjyW5ytxEQINlgCfZapTJy1Gm4+btNQFkvBdj0Zh2S4AoIwV lndL3AxlCqs3rOR4sHcrcsop =Rgmh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme@acm.org http://world.std.com/~cme | | PGP: 08FF BA05 599B 49D2 23C6 6FFD 36BA D342 | +--Officer, officer, arrest that man. He's whistling a dirty song.-+
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