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Brigitta Reik
Jan 17, 2024, 5:58:30 AM1/17/24
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Turning the entire bible into an XML file would make it HUGE. Of course there solutions such as Fast Infoset and Efficient XML (both binary encodings of Infoset, the data model behind XML). That would help a little, but perhaps not a lot. Gzip would probably reduce to approx. 1/3 of the original size, which again would help, but it would still be big.
My advise would be to consider a binary encoding of your bible text; one that is optimized for fast lookups. Like, having an index inside the file, mapping the location (a verse) to the offset where that actual text fragment starts. And if you do it properly, there is even the bonus of having something that is way more compact than XML.
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