• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:14:26 +0000

On 01/01/2012 23:42, David Lee wrote:
> Curious Richard, could you expound on this ?
> Why are you opposed to EXI ?
> IMHO ...
>
> I've read the specs about a year ago (briefly, not in detail).   I was not
> then particularly happy with it because it seemed overly complicated.
> Especially coming from a decade of mobile device programming where I belive
> the full implementation of EXI would be highly inefficient ... However, I
> didn't actually *try* any mobile implementations and would love to see real
> world results.
>
It doesn't worry me if the specs are complicated, so long as they are 
implementable, and that EXI is faster to generate, transmit, and parse 
than human-readable XML. If EXI achieves those objectives, as is 
claimed, then I think we should welcome it with open arms and adopt it 
much more widely.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: EXI: was : RE: what's missing in XML? What's coming?
    • From: Richard Salz <rsalz@u...>

• References:
  • EXI: was : RE: what's missing in XML? What's coming?
    • From: "David Lee" <dlee@c...>