Yes, but with EBML we don't need to compress the data.
We can exchange the datas directly.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacek Sieka j_s-at-telia.com |Direct Connect dev/1.0-Allow|"
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Subject: RE: [dcdev] using EBML instead of XML ?

> > Why _not_ use XML?
>
> Much smaller because it's a binary format.
But still very compressible as most data is text (filenames)...and since
we'll be compressing it anyway, the size really doesn't matter as XML
compresses away easily...

/J

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