What is the difference between .chw and .xpi?
- Extension
- .chw
- .xpi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Data
- Developer
- Microsoft
- W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group
- Description
- A CHW file, or Compiled Help Index File, is a type of file associated with Microsoft Compiled HTML Help, a proprietary format for online help files developed by Microsoft. This file specifically stores the index for a help file, allowing users to search and locate information quickly within the help documentation. The CHW file works in conjunction with a CHM file, which contains the actual help content, including text, images, and navigation.
- Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) is a binary XML format for exchange of data on a computer network. It was developed by the W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group and is one of the most prominent efforts to encode XML documents in a binary data format, rather than plain text. Using EXI format reduces the verbosity of XML documents as well as the cost of parsing. Improvements in the performance of writing (generating) content depends on the speed of the medium being written to, the methods and quality of actual implementations.
- MIME Type
- application/vnd.ms-works
- application/x-xpinstall
- Wikipedia
- .chw on Wikipedia
- .xpi on Wikipedia