[JDEV] Binary XML useful for Jabber?

[Thomas Charron]

    I believe it was considered, but none of the servers support it, hence,
none of the clients.

    There is also the fact that by leaving the XML as ASCII, it leaves the
transmission hardware to actually compress the data.  Binary data is much
harder to compress then raw ASCII.

From: <David_Lucek at 3com.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:34 AM
Subject: [JDEV] Binary XML useful for Jabber?
>      From reading the documents, it looks like Jabber just sends ASCII XML
over
> the wire, correct?   Have any of the architects/developers considered
using
> binary XML as defined in the Wireless Access Protocol(WAP) specification?
It
> would save transmission bandwidth but are there other disadvantages to
using it?