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Blogged date : 2004 Dec 31
Binary XML has been one of those concepts that`s been bandied aboutfor the last couple of years, though not without a huge amount ofaction. The principle here is simple - with XML as it exists now, textbased content can readily be parsed on any platform into an internalbinary representation (a DOM), but both the operations of parsing thefile and the subsequent reserialization of the content to externalentities are expensive operations. Time critical and high volumetransactions, such as those within financial applications, areespecially sensitive to this problem, and this may in fact account forthe less than enthusiastic adoption of web services within this sector.