User: scrutinizzzer

It's not only a "text file format"

On: Do XML-based Databases Live Up to the Hype?

For instance, eXist DB (http://exist-db.org) serializes XML data as binary DOM tree. So, it doesn't need to parse text XML data all the time. One more thing is Cocoon (cocoon.apache.org) which converts XML to a pipe of SAX event processors.