[Simple-support] Support for EXI encoding? (Efficient XML Interchange)?

[Niall G. <ni...@np...>]

Hi,

Has anyone tried Simple with EXI (Efficient XML Interchange)?

EXI is a W3C standard<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_XML_Interchange>for
encoding XML documents in a binary format instead of plaintext. It
integrates into standard XML stacks and provides the same APIs to
applications (SAX, StAX etc).  As part of the standardization process, the
W3C ran benchmarks on EXI in 2009 here<http://www.w3.org/TR/exi-evaluation/>,
their findings were compelling. It was standardized in 2011, and there are
now a few open source libraries to parse/write it via standard XML
interfaces.

In our internal tests, we also found EXI compelling - it blew JSON out of
the water in compactness and CPU efficiency, and was competitive with
Google Protocol Buffers (in compactness, but not efficiency). We are
interested in serving EXI instead of plaintext XML to Android handsets
where it might be more battery-friendly and reduce bandwidth requirements.

Just putting the feelers out at this stage - has anyone tried this with
Simple? Any gotchas?

Many thanks,
Niall