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.roua...@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 > > -- > Spatialys - Geospatial professional services > http://www.spatialys.com > -- Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.
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