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W3C Announces Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets

Use of XML as a format for exchange of information has its plusses and minuses. XML is self describing and lends itself to more loosely coupled information exchange but it is quite verbose and processing it can be resource intensive. As a result, the subject of a more compact/performant binary representation of XML has become a perma-thread in discussion fora such as xml_dev. In response to this interest, the W3C has announced a Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets.

My interest in this area is primarily its application to improving the performance of web services. Sun presented a technical session and BOF at the recent JavaONE conference describing the results of our investigations in this area as part of an internal project called 'Fast Web Services'. Fast web services uses ASN.1 to encode SOAP messages and other data described in XML Schema or WSDL in a very compact form and this work will form the basis of our position paper for the workshop.

Hope to see you there !

Comments

• That URL is not publicly accessible
  ... but it was this morning AFAIK. Will this eventually be public information, and can you confirm that non-W3C members may submit position papers and thus apply to participate?

  Posted by: mchampion on July 21, 2003 at 07:49 PM

• That's odd
  The page says that the workshop will be public and position papers will be published publicly after the workshop. I'll look into why the permissions are W3C member only.

  Posted by: mhadley on July 22, 2003 at 05:10 AM

• Update
  I've been informed that the web page will be publicly accessible real soon now.

  Posted by: mhadley on July 22, 2003 at 11:14 AM

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