Re: [xml-dev] No XML Binaries? Buy Hardware

[Robin Berjon <robin@joost.com>]

On Feb 22, 2007, at 16:32, Michael Champion wrote:
> The main current dispute is over whether a single binary format can  
> meet a
> wide enough range of needs to be worth standardizing.  I suspect  
> there will
> also be a fun debate over whether tightly coupling the components of a
> distributed application via schemas is worth the performance gains  
> that a
> schema-driven efficient serialization format would offer.   The W3C  
> EXI WG
> has collected a mountain of data on the question of how much  
> performance and
> compression improvement one gets under different scenarios, but  
> it's not yet
> released in a conveniently usable form AFAIK.

I believe there may be member-accessible documents being prepared for  
this purpose that you might be able to take a look at, but being out  
of the loop I don't know what the plan or ETA are. It would be nice  
if someone from EXI could do a quick public report on the current  
status :)

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Robin Berjon
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