- From: <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:10:38 +0100
- To: phayes@ai.uwf.edu
- Cc: sean@mysterylights.com, www-rdf-logic@w3.org
[...] > I was talking yesterday to a guy who has started three successful > companies in this area, who told me they had tried using XML and > discovered that the notation was such a crock that about 90% of their > transmission traffic was being used up sending meaningless notational > strings back and forth, causing performance problems; so they just > trashed XML and wrote their own notation. There's indeed a point here. Yesterday I was doing a testcase with 200001 concepts used in 100000 statements (no real application, just stress testing some inference engines). In that particular testcase I found that the RDF/XML file could be zipped 20 times. Using RDF/N3 this was just 4 times. So the XML file is 10 MB, the N3 file is 2 MB and the binary compressed file is 0.5 MB. Needless to say that this is having an impact on communication, storage and processing. We found the best balance with N3 [1][2][3][4]. -- Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/ [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3.html [2] http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/ [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer.html [4] http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Examples.html
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