What is the difference between .swm and .xpi?
- Extension
- .swm
- .xpi
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Data
- Developer
- Microsoft
- W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group
- Description
- The SWM file format, or Split Windows Imaging Format File, is a type of disk image file used by Microsoft Windows for system deployment, backup, and recovery purposes. It is essentially a variation of the WIM (Windows Imaging Format) file, but with a key difference: it is split into multiple smaller files, rather than being a single large file. This splitting feature makes SWM files particularly useful for distributing a large system image across multiple storage media, such as DVDs or USB drives.
- 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
- image/x-swm
- application/x-xpinstall
- Wikipedia
- .swm on Wikipedia
- .xpi on Wikipedia