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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
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="</font></font></font></span><span
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name</font></font></font></span><span
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"</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
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<</font></font></font></span><span
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name</span><span
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</</font></font></font></span><span
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name</span><span
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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
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