The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently took the next step in its efforts to establish a Binary XML standard. The group announced the launch of the "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group, ...

Do we need an alternative to human-readable text XML? Is the angle-bracketed payload of text XML becoming too much for our systems to bear? In a recent post, I reported on some swipes at efforts to ...

A binary option for XML, which is a text-based format. Binary versions of XML take up less space, and, more importantly, requests and responses take less network bandwidth. For example, a TV program ...

A new "security mitigation" tool from Microsoft can help take the guesswork out of opening Office 2003 files from people you don’'t know or aren't sure you should trust. The Microsoft Office Isolated ...