Is there anyone working on a binary version of XML?

[Dan Brickley]

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, DuCharme, Robert wrote:

> >I know, I know, this is anathema to what many of you feel is the 
> >essence of XML, and I agree to a point.
> 
> It's not so much about feelings, as about contradicting the XML spec.

Quite so. But there are still initiatives such as 

	http://www.wapforum.org/docs/technical.htm
	http://www.wapforum.org/docs/technical1.1/WBXML-03-Feb-1999.pdf

which attempts to define a 'compact binary representation of XML'.
(If going down that route, I'd rather have a compact binary
representation of whatever it was that I'm representing in XML, rather
than of the XML that I might've used as a textual representation of the
data... But then that really wouldn't be XML.)

Dan


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