Re: [xml-dev] Article on nytimes.com about Microsoft

• From: Dennis Sosnoski <dms@...>
• To: Michael Champion <mc@...>
• Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:34:16 +1200

Michael Champion wrote:
> It sounds to me like somebody is trying to use Microsoft's public
> skepticism about EXI (Efficient XML Interchange) for some purpose or
> another that is hard to guess at without knowing who is doing the
> off-the-record whispering.  I assume the event 4 years ago was the W3C
> workshop on binary XML, and the rival compression "standard" is the
> internal format that  WCF can use to communicate with other WCF
> implementations.

This is an interesting development. Is there any public information on
this format? Certainly many other web services stacks would be
interested in implementing it as well, if it does offer significant
performance improvements.

  - Dennis