Abstract

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.

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