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WBXML is a binary form of XML suitable for wireless and bandwidth-restricted applications.
by Bilal Siddiqui
December 1, 2001
ireless Binary XML (WBXML) is a compact representation of XML and is part of the presentation logic in Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WBXML significantly improves the efficiency of transmitting XML over narrow bandwidth networks, where data size is of paramount importance.
Although WBXML was originally meant for wireless networks, it's suitable for more than wireless applications. Conventional web applications can also take advantage of WBXML's ability to carry the same information as that of its XML counterpart, but in a reduced size. With the advent of tools that can work directly with WBXML, there is no need to convert WBXML to XML before using it. You can generate SAX events directly from WBXML and even load a WBXML tree (DOM) in memory without converting it to XML.
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ireless Binary XML (WBXML) is a compact representation of XML and is part of the presentation logic in Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WBXML significantly improves the efficiency of transmitting XML over narrow bandwidth networks, where data size is of paramount importance.
