Jonathan Chayce Dickinson wrote:
Fletcher, Boyd C. CIV US USJFCOM JFL J9935 wrote:
Speaking of compression, I think we should consider adding the w3's
efficient xml interchange (exi) support to xep-138. The testing
results I've seen for EXI indicate that in many circumstances it is
quite a bit better than zlib or tls compression. In addition to better
b/w utilization use of exi within the xmpp router could potentially
lead to dramatically improved scalability as binary xml is far more
efficient to process.
Interesting note on what I was trying to get at with DIME.
"7.1.1 Binary
Values typed as Binary are represented as a length-prefixed sequence of
octets representing the binary content. The length is represented as an
Unsigned Integer (see 7.1.6 Unsigned Integer)."
Suddenly it all becomes plausible. No need for Base64.
There are enough extensions to supporting binary content inband in xml,
the point is about interoperability & adoption - not whether it can or
cant be done.
A few specs have pulled this off like wbxml, etc ... and have wider
adoption & implementation. I would really not quote DIME, etc in this
context.
- Mridul
boyd
*snip*
Regards,
Jonathan Dickinson
