The space efficiency of XML

被引：22

作者：

Lawrence, R ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Univ Iowa, Dept Comp Sci, IDEA Lab, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA

来源：

INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY | 2004年 / 46卷 / 11期

关键词：

XML; relational database; character-separated files; data exchange; space efficiency;

D O I：

10.1016/j.infsof.2004.02.003

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

XML is the future language for data exchange, and support for XML has been extensive. Although XML has numerous benefits including self-describing data, improved readability, and standardization, there are always tradeoffs in the introduction of new technologies that replace existing systems. The tradeoff of XML versus other data exchange languages is improved readability and descriptiveness versus space efficiency. There has been limited work on examining the space efficiency of XML. This paper compares XML to other data exchange formats. Experiments are performed to measure the overhead in XML files and determine the amount of space used for data, schema, and overhead in a typical XML document. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：753 / 759

页数：7