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on from the reduce-reuse-recycle dept.
GFD writes: "The EETimes has a story about a relavtively old protocol for structured information call ASN.1 could be used to compress a 200 byte XML document to 2 bytes and few bits. I wonder if the same could be done with XHTML or even regular HTML."
200 bytes to 2 +/-
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Drizzten
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From the article: "Raw XML is very verbose -- it's not a good technology for the telecommunication of data unless you combine it with ASN.1," said Scott. "Together they can solve the problem without wasting bandwidth. An XML data set encoded into ASN.1 will be orders of magnitude less verbose than the raw XML." How much depends on the application, he said. "In one benchmark I have read about, a 200-byte message was reduced to 20 bytes with normal compression methods, but ASN.1 encoded it into just 2 bytes and a few bits," said [Bancroft] Scott.
Pretty impressive compression. Think anyone will reconsider it now?
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From the article: "Raw XML is very verbose -- it's not a good technology for the telecommunication of data unless you combine it with ASN.1," said Scott. "Together they can solve the problem without wasting bandwidth. An XML data set encoded into ASN.1 will be orders of magnitude less verbose than the raw XML." How much depends on the application, he said. "In one benchmark I have read about, a 200-byte message was reduced to 20 bytes with normal compression methods, but ASN.1 encoded it into just 2 bytes and a few bits," said [Bancroft] Scott.
Pretty impressive compression. Think anyone will reconsider it now?
"All mankind is at the mercy of a handful of neurotics". - Norman Douglas