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 ...

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 ...

Traditionally, XML's biggest disadvantage has been its bloated, ASCII-text-based encoding, which requires that you send considerably more bits than in non-XML binary data transfers. Companies can ...

We need a Binary XML standard, sooner, not later. The angle-bracketed payload is too much to bear. We need a Binary XML standard, sooner, not later.

XML has gained popularity as a platform- and language-independent format for transferring data across systems. In situations where you need to transfer binary data within an XML document, you must ...