From: Garry Petrie (gp_at_europa.com)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 06:49:19 CET
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Devin Kouts wrote:
>
> This is something I had been thinking of a couple months back. I'm
> ambivolent about suggesting the use of <ForwardAzimuth> as a tag. I like
> it because its clearly understandable and supports the human readable
> mantra of XML. On the other hand it's a space hog, especially when you
> consider that those (16*2+1) 33 characters will probably only delimit 5
> maximum characters (example 359.5) of data.
Please, the number of characters is irrelevant, memory is cheap, cheap and cheaper. My
digital camera has more RAM/EEROM then my first computer had RAM/DISK. The largest cave
survey I have on disk is only around 2MB and most are under 20KB. Be concise and clear,
then worry about space.
Garry Petrie
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