FastInfoset.NET

FastInfoset.NET enables you to reduce XML document size and increase XML processing performance by using the new Fast Infoset encoding. Fast Infoset is a standard that specifies a binary encoding for the W3C XML Infoset, designed to provide better compactness and speed than the text encoding. FastInfoset.NET is an implementation of Fast Infoset for the .NET Framework. It is cross-platform interoperable, it runs on .NET, .NET CF and Silverlight, it integrates into the XML API of .NET, it is royalty-free, it is written in 100% managed C# code and its full source code is available.

Key features include:

• Smaller XML document size: Documents encoded using Fast Infoset were significantly more compact than when using any of the other encodings, even down to a 10th of the size of the text encoding.
• XML processing speed: Increased performance of the text reader/writer, the text dictionary reader/writer, the Fast Infoset reader/writer, the Fast Infoset dictionary reader/writer and the .NET Binary dictionary reader/writer are key features.
• The Fast Infoset standard: Fast Infoset is an open standard that has been published as an ITU-T Recommendation and ISO/IEC International Standard (ITU-T Recommendation X.891 (2005) | ISO/IEC 24824-1:2007). This standard specifies a binary encoding for the W3C XML Information Set that is designed to improve the efficiency of the text XML encoding by producing a more compact representation at a higher transaction rate.
• Cross-platform interoperable: Fast Infoset is available not only on .NET and .NET CF but also on a wide range of other platforms such as Sun GlassFish, BEA WebLogic, Java SE, JBoss Application Server, TMax Soft JEUS, Apache Axis, as well as on Win32, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Symbian and QNX Nutrino.
• Efficient with binary data than MTOM: can also efficiently encode binary data like images, videos and other opaque items. Fast Infoset can reduce the size of the whole message irrespective of whether it contains binary data, contrary to MTOM which can only reduce the size of the binary data that might be contained in the message.
• Runs on both .NET and .NET CF.
• Integrates into the XML API of .NET.
• FI Viewer and FI Converter.
  
• Royalty-free distribution.