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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Re: [ubl-dev] Top 10 uses of XML in 2007
Many thanks I thought I'd misunderstood you. Apologies for pressing it so much. I guess the issue then is over how much advantage there is in using a schema to improve the compression. All the best Steve >>> Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu> 19/02/07 17:56:30 >>> Stephen Green wrote: > Take an Excel file. Convert it to Open Office. Then zip both and > compare the sizes. They are roughly equal. Stop. I'm perfectly happy to zip (or bzip or gzip or whatever) files before sending. I'm also happy to stick them in tar archives or other formats too before sending them. This is not what's at issue though. The question is whether we define a new uncompressed binary format. That seems unnecessary to me for most use cases. A lot of people in the wireless and small device space are not happy with the answer that they should just gzip before sending and ungzip when receiving. That eats too much battery life for them. For everyone else, worrying about anything beyond gzip is a complete waste of time and resources. -- *Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/ ______________________________________________________________________ Please note the new simpler name for our website: http://www.bristol.gov.uk Our email addresses have also changed - visit http://www.bristol.gov.uk/bigchange for further details. Sign-up for our email bulletin giving news, have-your-say and event information at: http://www.bristol.gov.uk/newsdirect
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