Concerns about XML Bloat

We like XML because Humans can read it
We hate it because its inefficient.

New W3C recommendation this month
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-exi-20110310/
Efficient XML Interchange (EXI)

Format 1.0

There are other approaches, clearly.

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”

--
Upton Sinclair.
Toby Considine TC9, Inc
OASIS Technical Advisory Board TC Chair: oBIX & WS-Calendar
TC Editor: EMIX, EnergyInterop
U.S. National Inst. of Standards and Tech. Smart Grid Architecture Committee
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