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<TITLE>RE: Is there anyone working on a binary version of XML?</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> I have come to feel however that there is room for a </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> "works-as-if" binary analogue to text based XML.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I did various experiments with this a while back. I tried a serialised SAX event stream, a simple canonicalisation and transcoding in which the special characters like "<" were replaced with octet values <x20, a Java serialisation of the DOM, etc. None gave a worthwhile saving over a stright reparsing of the original XML text stream, in fact most performed worse. So I gave up.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Mike Kay </FONT>
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