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Design and Implementation of an Online XML Compressor for Large XML Files

Authors:
Tomasz Muldner
Tyler Corbin
Jan Krzysztof Miziołek
Christopher Fry

Keywords: XML; compression; network performance.

Abstract:
Network-based applications using XML experience a performance penalty resulting from the verbose nature of this data format. This paper presents a novel XML-conscious compressor designed to alleviate these problems, using it for online compression and decompression. Two versions of the compressor were designed and implemented to find the most optimal solution and they were compared with offline compression/decompression. The tests show that for existing files online compression is less efficient than offline compression, however, online compression is superior for streaming or when compared to offline compression combined with sending the file through the network and subsequent decompression.

Pages: 141 to 161

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2012. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2012

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ISSN: 1942-2652