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Categorizing Efficient Xml Compression Schemes, John N. Dyer

John N. Dyer

Web services are Extensible Markup Language (XML) applications mapped to programs, objects, databases, and comprehensive business functions. In essence, Web services transform XML documents into and out of information technology systems. As more businesses turn to web services data transfer, XML has become the language of web services. Unfortunately, the structure of XML results in extremely verbose documents, often 3 times larger than ordinary content files. As XML becomes more common through Web services applications, its large file sizes increasingly burden the systems that must utilize it. This paper provides a qualitative overview of existing and proposed schemes for efficient …