Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group has published three documents

2007-12-21

The Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working
Group has published three documents: First Public Working
Drafts of EXI
Best Practices and EXI Primer, as well
as a Working Draft of EXI
Format 1.0. EXI is a very compact representation for the Extensible Markup
Language (XML) Information Set that is intended to
simultaneously optimize performance and the utilization of
computational resources. Using a relatively simple algorithm,
which is amenable to fast and compact implementation, and a small
set of data types, it reliably produces efficient encodings of
XML event streams. The primer and best practices documents
complement the format specification. The best practices document
also presents information suitable for the general reader
interested in EXI's intended role in the expanding Web.