An Analysis of XML Compression Efficiency
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
6-13-2007
Abstract
XML simplifies data exchange among heterogeneous computers, but it is notoriously verbose and has spawned the development of many XML-specific compressors and binary formats. We present an XML test corpus and a combined efficiency metric integrating compression ratio and execution speed. We use this corpus and linear regression to assess 14 general-purpose and XML-specific compressors relative to the proposed metric. We also identify key factors when selecting a compressor. Our results show XMill or WBXML may be useful in some instances, but a general-purpose compressor is often the best choice. Abstract ©ACM.
ACM classes: E.4 ; H.1.1
Source Publication
ExpCS '07: Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Experimental computer science
Recommended Citation
Christopher J. Augeri, Dursun A. Bulutoglu, Barry E. Mullins, Rusty O. Baldwin, and Leemon C. Baird. 2007. An analysis of XML compression efficiency. In Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Experimental computer science (ExpCS '07). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 7–es. https://doi.org/10.1145/1281700.1281707
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The ExpCS '07 conference took place during ACM FCRC 2007, in San Diego, California, June 13-14.