Re: [xml] in-memory compression?

["Robert G. Brown" <rgb phy duke edu>]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:19:06AM -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> > Questions about compression and whitespace:
> >
> >   a) It is stated that the library transparently handles compression
> > when doing file-based access.  How about memory?  Specifically, I'm
>
>   No there is no in memory compression surrport.
>
> >   b) On the same note, although I like seeing all the lovely indentation
> > when debugging, I'd be perfectly happy for all the spaces to be stripped
> > before sending (compressed or not) when the daemon is talking directly
> > to the client with no humans trying to read the stream directly.
>
>    All white spaces are significant. If you don't want to have 
> them in the serialization, do not generate them in the tree
> (or remove them).

I figured that out and now have a flag in the daemon to do that.  I'll
patch in zlib to do the compression/decompression.  Thanks.

   rgb

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