RE: [xml-dev] JavaScript (was Re: [xml-dev] Whither XML ?)

["Alessandro Triglia" <sandro@mclink.it>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liam R E Quin [mailto:liam@w3.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 20:23
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] JavaScript (was Re: [xml-dev] Whither XML ?)
> 
> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 23:00 +0200, Alexander Philippou wrote:
> > > > Just use Fast Infoset. There are several FI implementations
> > around. Combined with GZIP they should give you excellent results in
> > terms of both compactness and performance.
> 
> Yes, in many cases.  There are several competing specs for
> XML-specific binary encodings, which is why we (W3C) did EXI,
> to try and have only one dominant format, so as to avoid
> fragmentation.
> 
> > > But doesn't that require you to first know the schema of every thing
> > you'll be sending and receiving?  That's not always possible.
> 
> Neither EXI nor Fast Infoset requires that.
> 
> EXI in particular does perform better if you do have a schema.
> 
> Note also that some of the "binary XML" formats are limited,
> e.g. do not support mixed content, or comments, or processing
> instructions.


FI does not have those limitations.

Also, FI is an ITU-T Recommendation and ISO/IEC standard, was published in
2005, and is freely downloadable from the ITU-T website.

Alessandro


> 
> On the other hand, EXI is new - it's not yet a final Recommendation,
> we're still in the "call for implementations" phase.  Give it
> six months or so and see what's happening.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Liam
> 
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