MRo Blog » Huffman http://blog.mro.name Marcus Rohrmoser mobile Software Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:32:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Poignant: Xml meets Huffman http://blog.mro.name/2010/02/poignant-xml-meets-huffman/ http://blog.mro.name/2010/02/poignant-xml-meets-huffman/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:26:12 +0000 mro http://blog.mro.name/?p=1686 There’s a spec at the w3c about compressing (XML) named “Efficient XML Interchange” Format taking into account the grammar and likelihood of atoms within the document. They indeed use something similar the the Huffman Coding.

The results are quite impressive – nice charts!

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