Re: [xml-dev] Compression and wireless XML

[Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>]

Mike Champion wrote:

>  ...One component of the WAP specification that has 
> been submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium is a description of 
> Wireless Binary XML (WBXML for short). WBXML defines a compact binary 
> representation of XML. It reduces the transmission size of XML documents, 
> allowing more effective use of XML data on narrowband communication 
> channels"

...

> Can anyone help sort this out for me?


My impression was that WBXML had declined into irrelevance with the
rest of WAP. -Tim