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> -----Original Message----- > From: Liam R E Quin [mailto:liam@w...] > Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 22:27 > To: Richard Salz > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: EXI: was : RE: what's missing in XML? > What's coming? > > On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 15:41 -0500, Richard Salz wrote: > > > it has, at least a little. We previously were seeing things like > > > XML-specific compression specs that didn't support mixed content, > > > for example. > > > > Your perspective is much much wider than mine. But, really, you are > > seeing potential fragmentation that really posted a credible threat? > > Are or were seeing them? Any specifics you can point to? > > There were over a dozen binary encodings of XML identified as being in > at least moderately significant use at around the time of the Workshop. > > I don't have references without going digging, sorry. Fast Infoset was > obviously one; as I recall that was one where mixed content wasn't > initially supported at all. You are wrong. Fast Infoset is what its name implies: a compact representation of the XML Infoset. Simple and efficient, though perhaps not as compact as EXI. And it's an ISO standard and ITU-T Recommendation. Published in 2005. Alessandro
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