Stephen Green wrote:
> I guess the issue then is over how much advantage there is in
> using a schema to improve the compression.
>
That opens yet another can of tasty worms. :-) Once again I think the
common knowledge in this area is wrong. I do not believe schemas should
be shared. I do not think they actually are shared as much as most
people expect, once you actually start digging into systems. I think
that the benefits of any size improvements achieved by sharing the
schema are likely to be outweighed by the disadvantages of tightly
coupling your documents to a single schema. And finally I think that
most schema-aware compression schemes are lossy.
But that's another thread. :-)
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