XML压缩算法的分析与比较

XML为在Web上发布和交换异质数据提供了相当的灵活性。但由于这种语言自身就有冗余的特性所以XML文档在体积都大于有相同数据内容的其他类型的文档。随着XML在web上应用的扩展其数据大小自然也会随之而增加．而这实质上增加了数据的存储量、处理量和交换量，因此XML文档的体积问题也阻碍了XML的应用，特别是阻碍了XML在具有带宽和内存容量限制的应用上如移动通讯应用。在这篇文章中，我们将大致的介绍一下最近提出的几种针对XML的压缩算法并分析它们在解决XML文档体积问题上的技术和效能。

XML Compression Algorithm Analysis and Comparison

XML provides flexibility in publishing and exchanging heterogeneous data on the Web, However, the language is by nature verbose and thus XML documents are usually larger in size than other specifications containing the same data content. It is natural to expect that the data size will continue to grow as XML data proliferates on the Web. The size problem of XML documents hinders the applications of XML, since it substantially increases the costs of storing, processing and exchanging the data, The hindrance is more apparent in bandwidth- and memory-limited settings such as those applications related to mobile communication, In this paper, we survey a range of recently proposed XML specific compression technologies and study their efforts and capabilities to overcome the size problem. First, by categorizing XML compression technologies into queriable and unqueriable compressors, we explain the efforts in the representative technologies that aim at utilizing the exposed structure information from the input XML documents. Second, we discuss the importance of queriable XML compressors and assess whether the compressed XML documents generated from these technologies are able to support direct querying on XML data, Finally, we present a comparative analysis of the state-of-the-art XML conscious compression technologies in terms of compression ratio, compression and decompression times.