The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group is the public web page for the Efficient XML Interchange Working Group (there is also a member-only page with telephone numbers for conference calls, and other internal details).
This is part of the W3C XML Activity.
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group was chartered to produce several deliverables. (See the charter).
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has conducted work during one year to gather information about uses cases where the overhead of generating, parsing, transmitting, storing, or accessing XML-based data may be deemed too great for a particular application, characterizing the properties that XML provides as well as those that are required by the use cases, and establishing measurements to help judge whether XML 1.x and alternate encodings provide the required properties. In its latest deliverable, the Characterization document, the XBC Working Group recommended future work.
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group is chartered to define an alternative encoding of the XML Information Set that addresses the requirements identified by the XML Binary Characterization Working Group, while maintaining the existing interoperability between XML applications and XML specifications. An important task of this Working Group is to establish confidence that the performance gains are significant, and the potential for disruption to existing processors is small, to guarantee a successful deployment.
The Working Group will start by considering existing solutions and will evaluate each in terms of implementability and performance against the requirements and use cases documents produced by the XBC Working Group.
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group operates according to this charter. You can get involved by joining the W3C.
The list of the Working Group's participants is available on the WG status page.
The public mailing list for technical discussion with the Working Group is public-exi@w3.org (Archives).
(See the charter)
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