What is the difference between .xpi and .gz?
- Extension
- .xpi
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Data
- Compressed
- Developer
- W3C's Efficient Extensible Interchange Working Group
- The GNU Project
- Description
- 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.
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-xpinstall
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .xpi on Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia