On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:41:47 +0200, Maarten de Boer wrote: > Storing large arrays of floats in XML files is very > unefficient when it comes to space. Where in a binary > format each float would contain only 4 bytes, in a > ASCII format this number much bigger.
If you are worried about space, and want to encode things in a machine specific, binary format, then you probably shouldn't be using XML. You can always gzip the resulting XML file. FWIW, SOAP uses ASCII to represent floats. - Steve
