XML

ALSO CALLED: Extensible Markup Language, X M L
DEFINITION: Fast Infoset (FI) is a standard that can serve as analternative to XML (Extensible Markup Language) document formatting. The FI specification, which was approved by the ITU (InternationalTelecommunication Union) in May 2005 and published in March 2007, isdesigned to provide more efficient serialization than XML.Documents in XML format can be converted to FI format andvice-versa without loss of content.  … 
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XML DEFINITION (continued): …  In a simplified sense, FI documentsresemble compressed XML documents. However, Fast Infoset optimizes thespeed with which ASN.1 binary encoding is generated and processed and minimizes the file size. The FI specification defines encoding for an XML infoset, a data model consisting of up to 11components known as: Document information items Document type declaration information items Character information items Notation information items Namespace information items Element information items Attribute information items Processing instruction information items Unexpanded entity reference … 
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