[JDEV] Binary XML useful for Jabber?

[Jens Alfke]

On Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at 09:29 AM, Thomas Charron wrote:

>     There is also the fact that by leaving the XML as ASCII, it leaves 
> the
> transmission hardware to actually compress the data.  Binary data is 
> much
> harder to compress then raw ASCII.

Yes, but the binary data would already be compressed much further than 
ASCII could be. For example, the tokenization would compress a long 
attribute name like "jabber:iq:conference" down to something like two 
bytes.

One has to assume that the WAP people considered general compression vs. 
tokenization, and that they went with the latter because it offered 
better compression.

—Jens
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