A Grammar-based Approach for Compressing XML

XML is a popular meta-language in widespread use across a variety of application domains. However, its verbose nature has limited its acceptance in cases where a more succinct textual or binary data encoding format can be used. In this report, we describe AXECHOP, an XML-conscious compressor which uses a grammarbased approach to exploit the possibly significant structural redundancies within XML documents in order to achieve significant rates of compression