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> > Basically, the effort to get up and running with a small XML project > > is minimal as long as I have a parser. > > Thing is, I reckon any reasonably binxml parser would come with a tool (and > it would be a simple tool to write) that maps it to and from textual XML. Yes, if we had both, textual and binary XML. Now, given that, the question becomes: What are the advantages? - Efficiency of size? - Speed of parsing? Do they matter? Not in most apps, but probably in some. For example: Expat is sufficiently fast to require extra care in speed testing. You have to eliminate I/O and other processes running to even detect a 5% increase in speed. On my PIII 733 MHz, Expat can WF-check (no handlers set) about 30 MB of XML per second (pre-loaded into a buffer to eliminate I/O). Karl
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