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# Efficient XML Interchange

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Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) is a proposed data format from the Efficient XML Interchange Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It is one of the various efforts to encode XML documents in a binary data format, rather than plain text.

Using a binary XML format generally reduces the verbosity of XML documents, and may reduce cost of parsing. Performance of writing (generating) content is usually not similarly improved, although this depends on actual binary representation used.

The EXI format is derived from the AgileDelta Efficient XML format[1].

## [edit] See also

- Binary XML
- Fast Infoset

## [edit] References

1. ^ "Lightning-Fast Delivery of XML to More Devices in More Locations". AgileDelta. 2007-05-08 . http://www.agiledelta.com/product_efx.html . Retrieved on 2007-07-17.

## [edit] External links

- Efficient XML Interchange Format 1.0 (Working Draft)
- Efficient XML Interchange Working Group home page
- EXIficient - Open Source implementation of the EXI Format 1.0
- W3C binary XML requirements

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