THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

Compact and human readable

Many document formats are very bulky:

In comparison, HTML is slim:

Sizes of documents containing just the text "Hello World!":

PostScript hello.ps 11,274 bytes

PDF hello.pdf 4,915 bytes

MS Word hello.doc 19,456 bytes

HTML hello.html 44 bytes

Compactness is good for:

(Don't worry about voluminous markup - specialized compression techniques are emerging.)

Furthermore, HTML documents can be written and modified with any raw-text editor.