[JDEV] cons of jabber technology

[Robin]

> XML is uncompressed:  The client-to-server and server-
> to-server data streams are plain, uncompressed text.
> This isn't the most bandwidth efficient way of sending
> messages.  This will become important when Jabber
> starts to reach millions of simultaneous users.
Hopefully i can contribute a little thing of interest here. As her 4th year university
project, a friend of mine did some work on XML compression. Her report can be found here:
http://members.dencity.com/duckgirl/uni/report.htm

(I don't know if her email address is on the page, if anyone would like to get in touch for
more info, let me know, and I'll put you in contact).

Robin.