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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=564210012-26091999>I
agree :-)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Tyler Baker
[mailto:tyler@infinet.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 26, 1999 1:55
PM<BR><B>To:</B> reschke@medicaldataservice.de<BR><B>Cc:</B> Mark Nutter;
xml-dev@ic.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: RFC: Attributes and
XML-RPC<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>Julian Reschke wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <SPAN class=146373909-26091999><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>I would expect that gzip sees
the attribute as </FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=146373909-26091999></SPAN><SPAN class=146373909-26091999><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>
="</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=146373909-26091999><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>
name</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=146373909-26091999><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>
"</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=146373909-26091999></SPAN><SPAN
class=146373909-26091999><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1>while it sees elements as</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=146373909-26091999></SPAN><SPAN class=146373909-26091999><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>
<</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=146373909-26091999><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>
name</SPAN><SPAN
class=146373909-26091999>></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=146373909-26091999><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1> </</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=146373909-26091999><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=-1> name</SPAN><SPAN
class=146373909-26091999>></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=146373909-26091999></SPAN><SPAN class=146373909-26091999><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>Meaning three substrings for
attributes, while 4 substrings for elements, where only 1 of them occurs
twice.</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=146373909-26091999></SPAN><SPAN class=146373909-26091999><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=-1>Seems that the corrected
benchmark proves that my surprise was not without reason :-) (posting
attached again).</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>Right after I sent
off that email I said to myself in effect said "doh". Yes you are right,
nevertheless the difference in the results between using elements or
attributes when it comes down to document size after compression is neglible
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