Large XML data files, or XML databases, are now a common way to distribute scientific and bibliographic data, and storing such data efficiently is an important concern. A number o...
XML suffers from the major limitation of high redundancy. Even if compression can be beneficial for XML data, however, once compressed, the data can be seldom browsed and queried i...
Andrei Arion, Angela Bonifati, Gianni Costa, Sandr...
Like HTML, many XML documents are resident on native file systems. Since XML data is irregular and verbose, the disk space and the network bandwidth are wasted. To overcome the ve...
XML documents are extremely verbose since the "schema" is repeated for every "record" in the document. While a variety of compressors are available to address ...