RFC: Attributes and XML-RPC

[Walter Underwood]

At 10:13 AM 9/25/99 +0100, Steven Livingstone wrote: 
>
>We started discussing XML RPC and wire technologies using XML, 
>such as SOAP. These do not implement *any* kind of compression, 
>so the use of attributes is advantageous for (more) efficient 
>communication.

Compression is already provided at link-level in most networks.
It makes sense on slow or expensive links, not on others.
So, worrying too much about that at this level is probably
premature optimization.

wunder
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