Peter Gummer wrote: > 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 > > The key difference though is that I came to the figures via a comparison based upon real templates & archetypes within the NHS subversion repository @ http://svn.openehr.org/knowledge/
i.e. it was not plucked from the air but was based upon a fair few real openehr artefacts. I can send you the transform & you too can do real world comparisons. Adam > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Colin Sutton" <ColinS at ctc.usyd.edu.au> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > ********************************************************************** This message may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the NHS. Over a million messages are sent every day by the system. To find out why more and more NHS personnel are switching to this NHS Connecting for Health system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail **********************************************************************