[E-Lang] Draft Kernel-E DTD & Sketch of translation to debuggable Java

[Ken Kahn]

I'm a novice regarding XML but all this talk of it being verbose and maybe
not so optimal for transmission, made me think that XML must be very
well-suited for compression. A quick web search found
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/xmill/ where they write:

"One of the most intriguing results of XMill [their XML compression tool] is
that the conversion of proprietary data formats into XML will in fact
improve the compression - i.e. the the compressed XML file is (up to twice)
smaller than the compressed original file! And this astonishing compression
improvement is achieved at about the same compression speed."

And this was just the first hit I found when browsing. There may well be
better efforts.

Maybe clients and servers can begin communicating in XML and then agree to
use some compression scheme like the one above.

Best,

-ken kahn