ASN.1

[Hutchison, Nigel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Spreitzer [SMTP:spreitze at parc.xerox.com]
> Sent:	Friday, April 16, 1999 3:31 PM
> To:	'Hutchison, Nigel'; xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
> Subject:	RE: ASN.1
> 
> Nigel Hutchison wrote: [[
> I would have thought that the best way of dealing with this issue is to
> use
> a "pleasant" syntax which was easy to  process and implement another layer
> to compress the payload for transmission.
> ]]
> 
> Best in some contexts, but not all.  The compression layer has runtime
> costs, in both code and memory footprint, and processing time.  In some
> contexts (e.g., very resource-constrained items like cell phones and Palm
> Pilots), these costs can be significant.
[Nigel Hutchison]   I had some experience recently in trying to devise a RPC
XML DTD which was nice and compact. So I did also sorts of tricks with short
tag names, repetition conventions etc etc. This had the effect of
iincreasing the creation and parsing code significantly. I imagine that
there is a considerable footprint and CPU penalty is this optimisation. II
also found the prospect of testing and debugging this quite daunting.     I
then realised that when I send and receive XML documents via my analogue
modem they are effectively compressed and decompressed by the hardware - so
I was wasting my time (in that scenario at least). I would have thought that
all cellphones would do compression and decompression when they send and
receive data - is that not so? 

 I also found out that Mainframes have firmware supporting LZ compression
these days.
Regards

Nigel Hutchison
>  Mike
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