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Efficient XML Interchange
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<p>Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) is a <a href="/facts/Binary_XML/MG5fUaGF">binary XML</a> format for exchange of data on a computer network. It was developed by the W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group and is one of the most prominent efforts to encode <a href="/facts/XML/clNgUfWk">XML</a> documents in a <a href="/facts/Binary_file/ysttM8hh">binary data format</a>, rather than plain text. Using EXI format reduces the verbosity of XML documents as well as the cost of parsing. Improvements in the performance of writing (generating) content depends on the speed of the medium being written to, the methods and quality of actual implementations. EXI is useful for </p> <ul><li>a complete range of XML document sizes, from dozens of bytes to terabytes</li> <li>reducing computational overhead to speed up parsing of compressed documents</li> <li>increasing endurance of small devices by utilizing efficient decompression</li></ul>