My reply was really just an attempt at humour, Colin. Even with really long tag names, you don't get a 1:3 ratio; not even 1:2, I think.
And of course OPENEHR_ELEMENT_NAMES_ARE_NOT_REALLY_LONG_ANYWAY ;-) - Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Sutton" <[email protected]> To: "Peter Gummer" <peter.gummer at oceaninformatics.com>; "For openEHR technical discussions" <openehr-technical at openehr.org> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:02 PM Subject: RE: Archetype documentation using XML + XSLT With a compression algorithm, the difference may be negligible. Heath's first example is smaller than the second when zipped due to the repeated strings. Of course, the result may be quite different for a larger sample where "value=" is repeated. regards, Colin

