Building an XML Bloat Buster using ZXML - XML Compression Method
Date: Jan. 4, 2001
Link: http://www.asptoday.com/articles/20010103.htm
Source Author or Organization: Alain Trottier, ASPToday
"XML Bloat" refers the increase in file size when
data is converted to XML.
This article describes an approach using Extensible Style Language (XSL) to compress and decompress an XML file via the XML Compression (ZXML) method. ZXML is a lossless compression method that offers a compression ratio ranging from 2:1 to 20:1, while maintaining the accessibility of the Document Object Model (DOM) Application Programming Interface (API).
Encapsulating data in XML aids transaction interchange between systems, reducing what the author calls 'data friction'. However, the tradeoff is always an XML file size much bigger than the original.
Several XML, XSL and Java code examples are discussed. The author invites readers to improve upon the article's code to help initiate interest in an XMLviaXSL compression standard.
