Binary-encoding of XML for communication

[Tim Berners-Lee]

The WAP Binary XML Encoding Specification was submitted to the W3C
http://www.w3.org/Submission/1999/07/
by IBM, Ericsson, Motorola and Phone.com

Dan Connolly's comments on it to put it in perspective of the W3C and XML
are at
http://www.w3.org/Submission/1999/07/Comment

(This does *not* imply any endorsement by W3C in any way nor that is
is on any path to becoming a Recommendation.)

I understand that in the mobile area there is a strong need seen for binary
XML.
I also understand that this specification is not a generic encoding system
for
any XML document - but clearly this problem and some that Dan identifies may
not prevent some of the ideas in the spec being used for a general standard.

I know it is nice to stick with text (and compression if necessary) but if
binary XML
is going to happen anyway, would it not be wise for the XML community to be
involved
so as to ensure that it was absolutely equivalent to XML+NS?

Tim BL


-----Original Message-----
From: Shinichiro HAMADA <shinichiro.hamada at toshiba.co.jp>
To: - XML-Dev <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Date: Thursday, September 16, 1999 7:29 AM
Subject: Binary-encoding of XML for communication


>Hello, all.
>
>We are trying to develop a Server/Clients network system with XML. In this
>system, Clients read structured data and send them as XML data to a server.
>
>We estimate too heavy to communicate text-based XML and to decode/encode it
>to/from XML object tree. So we think it's desiable to communicate XML data
>as binary serialized object tree. And it's better that the binary code is
>open format.
>
>If I remeber correctly, such a open binary XML format are discussed among a
>starndard XML community. Is it true? If anyone knew anything about that,
>please tell me.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>--
>Shinichiro HAMADA
>TOSHIBA Corp.
>
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