[OSGeo-Discuss] EXI with XML data streams

[Newcomb, Doug]

According to the presenter, it would lessen the bandwidth by a couple of
orders of magnitude for streamed XML formats.

Doug

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Le lundi 30 mars 2015 16:47:26, Newcomb, Doug a écrit :
> > Hi Folks,
> > Sitting in on a standards meeting and just heard about EXI, Efficeint XML
> > Interchange
> > http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/.  It seems that this would be useful for
> > reducing bandwidth requirements for XML data streams such as WFS.  Has
> > anyone looked at that?
>
> Doug,
>
> I don't know about EXI, but most web servers should already support GZip
> compression out of the box, with no impact on WFS client&server code, so
> IMHO,
> EXI should offer significant compression ratio over GZip-compressed XML to
> really be an incentive to be adopted by both WFS client & servers. WFS
> servers
> also often the possibility of alternate outputFormat to GML, such as zipped
> shapefile, etc..
>
> Even
>
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