Re: open email to the W3C

In comp.lang.java.advocacy, Roedy Green
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wrote
on Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:04:47 GMT
<bosud11194jb6t7o2utl4m2bn5pcejd494@xxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:59:58 GMT, Tim Tyler <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> or quoted :
>
>>Bandwidth-sensitive communication channels are typically compressed -
>>and XML is highly compressible.
>
> There are two catches. XML has so much fluff, I'd hazard it does not
> even squish as well as ASN.1 without compression.
>
> Decompressing is an expensive operation for a handheld -- the one most
> sensitive to the bandwidth squander.
>

Even ASN.1 has a bit of fluff -- but far less than XML. Decompression
also requires power (in the literal electrical sense) -- something a
handheld doesn't have a lot of.

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