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<- Hmmm, it'd be nice if XML was more compact, faster to parse, and let you <- embed other data streams more easily - do we *have* to make it <- human-readable UTF-8? It wouldn't be extensible or markup - I suppose you could just call it 'L' Surely a binary format would be much <- better if there <- were good tools easily available to hand-edit it? There's nothing stopping anyone using binary formats, there are thousands in use. Hand editing along with visual representation is one thing, machine generation and reading another. All are done with binary formats in lots of systems, but to be able to use these completely across the board you need to go to a pretty low common denominator such (e.g. plain text). Either you do without compatibility between systems or you sacrifice a bit of speed. There are compromises though - you could have a reference in your markup to a binary file (e.g. a .jpg) and the processor could receive this separately from the markup, as in HTML browsers. Cheers, Danny.
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