Efficient XML Interchange: Compact, Efficient, and Standards-Based XML
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Authors
Snyder, Sheldon
McGregor, Don
Brutzman, Don
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2009
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Fall 2009
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en_US
Abstract
XML has become a popular representation format for data, both in modeling and simulation and
elsewhere. However, XML's design choice of a text-based format also makes XML data files much larger than binary
files, making XML languages difficult to use in bandwidth-constrained military applications. This limitation has
resulted in several ad-hoc attempts to make XML more compact, each of which tends to be incompatible with the
other. Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Draft for the compact and
efficient representation of the XML infoset. EXI is designed to be generally applicable to all XML documents, and lays
the foundation for a unified format for compact XML document representation.
This paper presents compactness results for several popular modeling and simulation XML file formats, including
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Extensible 3D Graphics (X3D). Recent
commercial and open source EXI implementations are also described.
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Working Paper
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Documents include Paper and Presentation.
Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) SIW Conference Paper
Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) SIW Conference Paper
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09F-SIW-004-PDF;09F-SIW-004-PPT
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Department of Information Science
Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation Institute (MOVES)
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Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.