> ...go for a binary representation. ... The question of what we humans need to read and write no longer has any bearing on what the computers need to work with

> ...go for a binary representation. ... The question of what we humans need to read and write no longer has any bearing on what the computers need to work with. We seem to be heading away from binary. I think the bigger problem with XML is the XML stack. Many of the ideas are insightful, powerful, useful - but the embodiments are tedious (e.g. XML Schema, XSLT). OTOH, a problem is an opportunity