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> -----Original Message----- > From: Liam R E Quin [mailto:liam@w...] > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 20:23 > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: JavaScript (was Re: 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 > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
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