To overcome the shortcoming of the current XML compression algorithms which do not distinguish between Chinese characters and English words,it presents a Chinese-oriented XML compressor with high compression ratio,called COX.The input documents are preprocessed by using the technology of Chinese word segmentation,the sorted dictionary is obtained by counting the word frequency,and then the high-frequency and long-size words are coded by using the Huffman coding method.The items in the XML documents are clas...