Here is a link having information about XML encryption
http://xml.coverpages.org/xmlAndEncryption.html
You said, there is bandwidth wastage while exchanging
XML in expanded form. I feel people might be doing
tradeoff between bandwidth consumption, and the extra
processing power consumed at sender and reciever end
for encryption and decryption.
Regards,
Mukul
--- basudeb gupta <> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is another question of an ignorant person.
>
> How is the XML Data actually exchanged? Is it in its
> full glorious expanded form? If so, is it not a
> great
> loss of bandwidth?
>
> If not, I assume there are compression mechanisms
> available in the send and receive functions used by
> such programs which exchange XML data? Can someone
> please guide me on the current state of the art?
>
> I, coming from working on a protocol called SIGCOMP,
> feel strongly that an exchangeable compression
> decompression format may also be quite suitable for
> XML data exchange.
>
> Am I redreaming the wheel?
>
> Thanks
> Basudeb
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