begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:58:58PM -0700: > Tom Gal wrote: > > Personally I think XML is great, and there's a lot of efforts underway > > to optimize it for binary mode transmission etc. on the way. The fact > > If you want a space efficient binary why not just pipe it through gzip?
I worked with a system that did that[1]. You have to really trust the underlying layers to make that work well. There was talk once upon a time of a compressed network library that would let you trivially add compression to any network-using program. -Stewart [1] Well, zip, not gzip. Same effect. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
