- From: Greg White <gwhite@stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:31:28 -0800
- To: public-exi@w3.org
- Cc: EXI EXI <member-exi-wg@w3.org>
Dear Colleagues and Friends of EXI, First of all, many thanks to everyone who has contributed comments on our first draft specification, and please accept our apologies if you have not received an individual reply. We are actively working on some comments now, and their involvement and depth have meant that we didn't reply as quickly as we would have liked. Please do again take time to review these new publications, from your expertise and requirements. The Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group is pleased to publish the Second Public Working Draft of the Efficient XML Interchange Format specification. EXI is a very compact representation for the XML Information Set, intended for use cases where high performance and optimal utilization of computational resources are key. Title: Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format Pub URI: http://www.w3.org/TR/exi This version URI: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-exi-20071219 The Working Group agreed to this transition request, subject to vote, at its regularly scheduled teleconference on 12th December. We also published First Public Working Drafts of two documents intended to help potential users and implementers to understand and, if appropriate, adopt the EXI encoding format: The two documents are: 1) Title: Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Primer URI shortname: http://www.w3.org/TR/exi-primer 2) Title: Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Best Practices URI shortname: http://www.w3.org/TR/exi-best-practices The Abstract and Status sections of the Primer and Best Practices documents, are bellow. Sincerely Greg White and Daniel Vogelheim, for the EXI Working Group. Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Primer ====================================== Abstract This is a non-normative document intended to provide an easily readable technical background on the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) format. It is oriented towards quickly understanding how the EXI format can be used in practice and how options can be set to achieve specific needs. Section 2. Concepts describes the structure of an EXI document and introduces the notions of EXI header, EXI body and EXI grammar which are fundamental to the understanding of the EXI format. Additional details about data type representation, compression, and their interaction with other format features are presented. Finally, Section 3. Efficient XML Interchange by Example provides a detailed, bit-level description of a schema-less example. Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Best Practices ============================================== Abstract The purpose of this document is to provide guidelines for the interoperable deployment of the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) format. It provides explanations of format features and techniques to support interoperable information exchanges using EXI. While intended primarily as a practical guide for systems architects and programmers, it also presents information suitable for the general reader interested in EXI's intended role in the expanding Web.
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