> XML was never intended as a memory-efficient format I never said it was. I apologize if it wasn't clear from my comment, but it was centered solely on the as

> XML was never intended as a memory-efficient format I never said it was. I apologize if it wasn't clear from my comment, but it was centered solely on the aspect of human readability. You're not wrong about it being speculation though, I just don't see the harm since we're talking about a speculative source article in the first place. > Can you provide some examples of actual binary protocols that underwent this transformation? My entire comment was addressing an example where I felt a format had degenerated because it transitioned from a human-readable to a decidedly machine-readable form. My criticism is not based on the notion that binaries are bad in of themselves.