There are a whole bunch of competing binary XML formats that promise to be more efficient than XML (both in terms of space usage, and time taken to process/pars

There are a whole bunch of competing binary XML formats that promise to be more efficient than XML (both in terms of space usage, and time taken to process/parse). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_XML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_XML Fast Infoset is a good contender: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Infoset http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Infoset