Position Paper for the W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets

TheW3C’s initiative to start working on a binary representation of XML (or XML Infosets) is a very promising and important decision. Several areas of XML applications, where XML’s verboseness has always been a concern, will certainly benefit from such an effort. Application areas of a binary XML representation range form network-level applications that by their very nature are concerned with bandwidth consumption, up to certain industries such as banking, where the sheer volume of transactions that need to be processed makes it necessary to use efficient and compact encodings. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) as a member of the W3C wishes to participate in the process of discussing the requirements for such a binary encoding at the “W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets”, and may also be interested in the following process of working on and defining a binary representation of XML.