begin  quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:58:58PM -0700:
> Tom Gal wrote:
> > Personally I think XML is great, and there's a lot of efforts underway
> > to optimize it for binary mode transmission etc. on the way. The fact
> 
> If you want a space efficient binary why not just pipe it through gzip?

I worked with a system that did that[1].

You have to really trust the underlying layers to make that work well.
There was talk once upon a time of a compressed network library that
would let you trivially add compression to any network-using program.

-Stewart

[1] Well, zip, not gzip. Same effect.

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