The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently took the next step in its efforts to establish a Binary XML standard. The group announced the launch of the "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group, ...

Do we need an alternative to human-readable text XML? Is the angle-bracketed payload of text XML becoming too much for our systems to bear? In a recent post, I reported on some swipes at efforts to ...

A binary option for XML, which is a text-based format. Binary versions of XML take up less space, and, more importantly, requests and responses take less network bandwidth. For example, a TV program ...

Years ago, after the early interest in XML, I wrote an article about the limitations of the XML standard, specifically when it came to the efficiencies of information transfer. Basically it outlined ...

A technology standards-making body proposes a way to make XML files smaller and, in turn, easier for computers to process, but Jean Paoli, one of the mark-up language’s creators, isn’t fond of the ...