On 01/01/2012 23:42, David Lee wrote:
> Curious Richard, could you expound on this ?
> Why are you opposed to EXI ?
> IMHO ...
>
> I've read the specs about a year ago (briefly, not in detail). I was not
> then particularly happy with it because it seemed overly complicated.
> Especially coming from a decade of mobile device programming where I belive
> the full implementation of EXI would be highly inefficient ... However, I
> didn't actually *try* any mobile implementations and would love to see real
> world results.
>
It doesn't worry me if the specs are complicated, so long as they are
implementable, and that EXI is faster to generate, transmit, and parse
than human-readable XML. If EXI achieves those objectives, as is
claimed, then I think we should welcome it with open arms and adopt it
much more widely.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
