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It would be interesting to know what their data was: was it binary payloads encoded as Bin64, decimal numbers, dates/coordinates in some form? I don't see the that the first complete paragraph on page 2 is accurate: it misses out that there has always been a strong group of opinion that adoption of XML willy nilly for all data interchange is just dumb: "terseness is of minimal importance" is not a statement about the universe but a statement of the goals of XML: that XML is explicitly not designed to be useful when terseness is important (though it may be.) In particular, XML's tersness goal is a response to building in clever methods of reducing file sizes using schemas (e.g. tag ommission) which SGML allowed, while still being text. Using schematic info to reduce file size is not new, it was XML's departure point that it should be (left to) some later layer (fitting in with HTML's capabilities, in particular.) IOW, XML is a technology for the WWW. If your application is not WWW then don't feel cheated if you have to transform the data to meet pragmatic requirements. I don't see anything wrong with having optimized native formats and public XML bindings. If it makes design sense to have a very simple relationship between the optimized binary format and the public XML, why not. Cheers, and apologies for posting so often this week Rick Jelliffe 
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