XML Re: [sldev] Opening the server source?

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dale at daleglass.net wrote:
> XML is based on SGML, which had largely the same goals. XML is a
> simplification of it.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGML
>   
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Yep.

> XML is bloated to be human readable. For example, the <foo>stuff</foo>
> syntax. They could have done <foo>stuff</>, and actually I think SGML
> supports that. But take any HTML document, and turn all closing tags
> into a </>. Now how do you tell quickly where the effect of <em> or
> <strong> is ending? 
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Compression methods better than RLE use a technique to replace common 
pattens with shorter ones, and they put the original pattern in an 
array. It wouldn't be to hard to compress XML keywords this way, so 
those aren't critical for size counts.

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