This Working Group Note presents measurement results of various high-performance XML interchange encoding formats and their associated processors, made by the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group. The measurements have been conducted following the recommendations of the XML Binary Characterization (XBC) Working Group. In particular, this draft covers measurements of the properties of "compactness", "processing efficiency" and "roundtrip support", as defined by the XBC WG. We start by describing the context in which this analysis is being made, and the position of an efficient format in the landscape of high performance XML strategies. Then we describe the measured quantities in detail and the test framework in which they were made, and give a short description of each format. Finally, a summary of the results and the conclusions of the group are included. The full measurements and analysis are included in an appendix and supporting documents. As a result of the measurements described here, the working group selected Efficient XML ([EffXML]) to be the basis for the proposed encoding specification to be prepared as a candidate W3C Recommendation. Follow up work has centered around integrating some features from the other measured format technologies, particularly variations for both more efficient structural and value encodings.
TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE PAGE
CERTIFICATION
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
1.2 STATE OF THE PROBLEM
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
1.4 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
1.5 SCOPE OF STUDY
1.6 LIMITATIONS OF STUDY
1.7 ASSUMPTIONS
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF EXISTING SYSTEM
3.2 FACT FINDING METHOD USED
3.3 ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
3.4 OBJECTIVES OF EXISTING SYSTEM
3.5 INPUT, PROCESS AND OUTPUT ANALYSIS
3.6 INFORMATION FLOW DIAGRAMS
3.7 PROBLEMS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM
3.8 JUSTIFICATION OF THE NEW SYSTEM
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 DESIGN OF THE NEW SYSTEM
4.2 INPUT SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN
4.3 OUTPUT SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN
4.4 FILE DESIGN
4.5 PROCEDURE CHART
4.6 SYSTEM FLOW CHART
4.7 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
4.8 IMPLEMENTATION
4.9 PROGRAM DESIGN
PROGRAM FLOWCHART
4.9 PSEUDO CODE
4.10 SOURCE PROGRAM: TEST RUN
DOCUMENTATION
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 RECOMMENDATION
5.2 CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
