Energy Efficient Data Formatting Scheme: A Review and Analysis on XML Alternatives

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 Nonbinary formats due to their readability and less verbosity. KeywordsData Formatting Schemes, XML, Alternative XML Methods