xml-dev - Re: Is there anyone working on a binary version of XML?

[Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>]

"Stephen D. Williams" wrote:
> I'm not trying to create a new way to recognize XML, but a more efficient way to
> do all kinds of computer processing and communication with it.  Innordinate
> amounts of time, money, effort, CPU, and bandwidth are spent at the interfaces
> between programs and other programs, databases, file systems, networks, servers,
> etc.  XML is a good general solution, but some situations require optimization
> which is what I'm working on.

I can see many ways that a typical XML document could be optimized for
size if XML compatibility was not a concern. Call it "compressed ML." I am
not clear, however, why CompressedML would need to be binary. There are
many languages where working with binary data is more expensive than
working with text.

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