Is there anyone working on a binary version of XML?

[Peter Stark]

Not only "attempts to define".

The "binary XML" defined by the WAP Forum is a format for tokenized XML.
It's supported by cellular phones with WAP browsers, e.g.
http://www.nokia.com/phones/7110/index.html. Element and attribute names are
replaced by binary values to make parsing cheaper in the client. It does,
however, not support all XML features. For example, XML namespaces are not
supported.

You can read more about WAP at:
http://www.uplanet.com/pub/111398_WAP_V1whitepaper.pdf

Peter Stark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
> Dan Brickley
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 12:54 PM
> To: 'xml-dev at ic.ac.uk'
> Subject: RE: Is there anyone working on a binary version of XML?
>
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, DuCharme, Robert wrote:
>
> > >I know, I know, this is anathema to what many of you feel is the
> > >essence of XML, and I agree to a point.
> >
> > It's not so much about feelings, as about contradicting the XML spec.
>
> Quite so. But there are still initiatives such as
>
	http://www.wapforum.org/docs/technical.htm
	http://www.wapforum.org/docs/technical1.1/WBXML-03-Feb-1999.pdf

which attempts to define a 'compact binary representation of XML'.
(If going down that route, I'd rather have a compact binary
representation of whatever it was that I'm representing in XML, rather
than of the XML that I might've used as a textual representation of the
data... But then that really wouldn't be XML.)

Dan


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