to increase the compression factor, one should
model the input source more accurately using the
XML specs and the DTD of the input file.
but in this case, encoding/decoding needs more work.
regards,
aki yoshida
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Layman
This is not to debate the value of short end tags. That's been debated.
But just as a technical matter, I also ran some tests a while ago, and found
that files with short end tags compress 5 to 10 percent better than those
with full end tags. I believe the reason is that with full end tags there
are more unique pairs of end/start, while with short end tags there are only
as many end/start pairs as types of start tag. So a compression scheme that
first shortened end tags, then applied a standard compression would be more
efficient size-wise.