Re: SD1 - Short End Tags [fmt]

• From: Eduardo Gutentag <Eduardo.Gutentag@Eng.Sun.COM>
• Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 09:54:41 -0700 (PDT)
• To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <Roam.SIMC.2.0.6.864147281.9561.eduardo@rug>

 
> I'd turn it around and say if space/transfer volume savings is so
> important, use short tag names and compression schemes.  Compression
> and decompression are much simplier, smaller, and more ubiquitous
> applications than XML-parsing, GI-inserting applications.
> 
> paul 
> 

I must side with Paul (and not just because I'm a desperate hacker in
no matter what language I happen to deal with;-). A 40% reduction achieved
just by shortening end tags indicates that there is more tagging than
content. Surely a database application can deal with
<A>
	<b>foo</b>
	<c>bar</c>
</A>

as easily as with

<author>
	<firstname>foo</firstname>
	<lastname>bar</lastname>
</author>

(and there you have a 46% reduction without having to change the spec...)

Eduardo

Received on Tuesday, 20 May 1997 12:55:08 UTC