Domain-Specific XML Compression

Our compression technique is an abstraction of Packed Encoding Rules and has been implemented by the Packed objects structured data compression tool. Rather than trying to support a complex standard we instead describe a very simple technique which allows us to implement a very light-weight encoder capable of compressing structured data represented in XML. We call this work Integer Encoding Rules (IER). The technique is based on a simple mapping of data values belonging to a set of data types to a series of integer values. The data values come from XML data and the data types come from XML Schema.