Is there anyone working on a binary version of XML?

[Anders W. Tell]

David Megginson wrote:

> In general, though, what we need is a transport layer that takes care
> of things like this for us.  Document type designers should optimise
> for readability and usability, and let protocol designers worry about
> the optimisations.

In general I agree especially with that Document Type creator should not
be doing "manual optimizations". However I in the case of DOM to DOM
communication its possible to to much better than using XML text a content carrier.

In this case the question arises, where is the protocol interface ?
Is it an interface that accepts a arbitrary byte stream and transports opaque data
to a receiver (A) or is it a an interface that accepts a DOM tree and sends it
ot a receiver (B) ?

(A)
DOM  --> [streamifyXML] --> XML text -->[protocolInterface] -->something smaller,faster (gzip,
FastML,...)
==communicate==>
something smaller,faster --> [protocolInterface] --> XML text  ->[SAX] --> DOM

(B)
DOM  --> [protocolInterface] -->something smaller (gzip)
==communicate==>
something smaller  --> [protocolInterface] -->DOM


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