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Does the World Need Binary XML?

Posted by michael on Friday January 14, 2005 @05:52AM from the using-gzip-would-be-too-easy dept.

sebFlyte writes "One of XML's founders says 'If I were world dictator, I'd put a kibosh on binary XML' in this interesting look at what can be done to make XML better, faster and stronger."

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Re:For Starters by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-14 05:59 · Score: -1, Flamebait

You must be new here...perhaps you just aren't aware of the fact that Microsoft has repeatedly warped standards to their own uses, ruining the "standard" part of it and the benefits therein.
Re:For Starters by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-14 06:00 · Score: -1, Flamebait

And thats different from microsoft rewriting the standard to suit them and forcing the industry along with MS-XML because "its a standard"?