International Journal of Applied Information Systems |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 1 - Number 1 |
Year of Publication: 2012 |
Authors: P. Shadiya, P. P. Abdul Haleem |
10.5120/ijais12-450718 |
P. Shadiya, P. P. Abdul Haleem . Energy Efficient Data Formatting Scheme: A review and Analysis on XML Alternatives. International Journal of Applied Information Systems. 1, 1 ( November 2012), 10-13. DOI=10.5120/ijais12-450718
A format for data representation and associated facilities can be referred as a Data Formatting Scheme (DFS). The de-facto standard format is eXtended Markup Language (XML). XML is advantageous because of its unique features such as structured code, secure, self-descriptiveness etc,. But XML has an inherent limitation due to the abundant use of tags - verbosity. Several alternative proposals are being discussed in the literature to solve this problem. In this paper a review on different alternative methods for XML are done. Three categories of methods are explored in this paper - XML compression, alternative binary formats for XML and alternative non-binary formats for XML. It is observed that there is a scope for data formatting schemes based on Non-binary formats due to their readability and less verbosity.