This is the public web page for the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The EXI group is part of W3C's XML Activity. Here we present literature and data that may be of interest to the public. There is also a private page for members of the EXI group, for internal information.

The objective of the Efficient XML Interchange Working Group is to develop a specification for an encoding format that allows efficient interchange of the XML Information Set, and to illustrate effective processor implementations of that encoding. This work is based on the conclusions of the XML Binary Characterization (XBC) Working Group.

The group's charter covers the period February 2013 to 31 May 2015.

Publications

Other selected publications in the order of most recent first:

Present Status

(In reverse chronological order, as of 09 Sep 2014).

In Sep 2014, "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Profile for limiting usage of dynamic memory" specification became a Recommendation.

In April 2014, the third draft note of EXI Primer was published.

In February 2014, "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 (Second Edition)" became a Recommendation.

In September 2013, the First Public Working Draft of the Canonical EXI specification was published.

In April 2009, Evaluation of the EXI Format (Second Working Draft) relative to XML, gzipped XML and ASN.1 PER, was published.

In September 2008, a draft note on EXI Impacts describing the impacts of EXI that may potentially cause to affect existing XML technologies, XML processors, and applications was published.

In December 2007, a draft note on the EXI Best Practices describing the guidelines for the interoperable deployment of EXI was published.

Status history that predates the above events are described here.

Background

The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group was chartered to define an alternative encoding of the XML Information Set, that addressed the requirements identified by the XML Binary Characterization (XBC) Working Group, while maintaining the existing interoperability between XML applications and XML specifications.

The XML Binary Characterization (XBC) Working Group conducted work between March 2004 to March 2005, to gather information about uses cases where the overhead of generating, parsing, transmitting, storing, or accessing XML-based data, might be deemed too great within the context of those use cases. XBC also characterized the properties that XML provides as well as those that are required by the use cases, and established measurements to help judge whether XML 1.x and alternate encodings provided the required properties. In that group's Characterization document, the XBC Working Group recommended future work.

The task of this Working Group is to jointly establish and optimize, the performance of an alternate, non-textual, encoding of XML. At the same time, disruption to existing processors, and impact on the complex real-world uses of XML, must be minimized. The Working Group started by considering existing solutions and has evaluated each in terms of implementability and performance against the requirements produced by the XBC Working Group. We gathered together a test data set of more than 10000 documents in 30 or so XML vocabularies, from a broad range of use case groups, such as Scientific, Financial, Electronic (those intended for human consumption), Storage (intended as data stores), etc. The existing solutions, and candidate base technologies for a potential EXI format, were then measured over a number of merit criteria, within a benchmark framework based on japex. The measurements are presented in the Efficient XML Interchange Measurements Note

Measurement Test Framework

The EXI framework is available for download. This measurement test framework was created for the purpose of obtaining empirical data about format properties. In this release, the framework can be used to measure Processing Efficiency and Compactness over a wide variety of XML documents collected by the WG. The framework includes support for in-memory and network testing, the latter is particularly useful to measure the performance of a format relative to the available bandwidth. See the Release Notes for further information.

Interoperability Test Framework

The EXI interoperability test framework was created for the purpose of conducting interoperability assessment as a means to evaluate the clarity of the EXI Format and related specifications. It is not intended as a means to validate conformance though it would likely facilitate EXI implementation efforts.

• EXI Format 1.0

• EXI Profile for limiting usage of dynamic memory

Participation and Discussion

The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group operates according to this charter. You can get involved by joining the W3C. The list of the Working Group's participants is available on the WG status page.

The public mailing list for technical discussion with the Working Group is public-exi@w3.org (Archives).

The public mailing list for sending feedbacks on the EXI format specification is public-exi-comments@w3.org (Archives).

Timeline

Below are the estimated schedules (as of 09 Sep 2014) for the works underway.

Patent Disclosures

W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent.

EXI Implementations

Here is a list of publicly available implementations of the EXI 1.0 specifiction, in alphabetical order.

• Efficient XML (AgileDelta, Inc.)
• EXIficient (Open source project initiated by Siemens AG)
• EXIP ‒ Open source project led by EISLAB, Luleå University of Technology
• Nagasena ‒ Open source implementations led by Fujitsu Laboratories of America

If you have an implementation and wish to have it listed, contact the WG chairs or staff (info at the end of the page) with required information specified in the preliminary Call for Implementations.

Enumerated below are summary information pertinent to each implementation listed above, in chronological order determined by when the information was first provided.

• EXIficient

• Nagasena

• EXIP

• Efficient XML

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