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RE: Article on nytimes.com about Microsoft

• From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• To: "'\[Public XML Dev\]'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 19:03:22 -0700 (PDT)

Michael Champion wrote:
> None of the binary XML formats we've seen greatly reduce the bandwidth
> or processor burden of XML in general.

Disagree... for docs with repeating markup and without a high proportion of
text Fast Infoset can give good compactness (http://tinyurl.com/37n373)
without the processing overhead of compression.

> If a W3C Recommendation emerges and/or there is customer demand
> (or, ahem, de jure government demand) to support interoperability on the
> basis of EXI (or ITU FastInfoset, an existing binary XML standard), we'd
> be able to support it in the .NET architecture.

FI is already available for .NET as an XmlReader/Writer implementation that
is interoperable with Java and C++. There is also an FI message encoding
offering WCF<->WSIT/Metro communication over any transport.

Alexander


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  • RE: Article on nytimes.com about Microsoft
    • From: "Alexander Philippou" <alex@n...>