Hi, This could be of interest to this WG: http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has conducted work during one year to gather information about uses cases where the overhead of generating, parsing, transmitting, storing, or accessing XML-based data may be deemed too great for a particular application, characterizing the properties that XML provides as well as those that are required by the use cases, and establishing measurements to help judge whether XML 1.x and alternate encodings provide the required properties... More info at the link above ... I think that this should be of interest to this WG. Mario +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mario Antonioletti:EPCC,JCMB,The King's Buildings,Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. | |Tel:0131 650 5141|mario@epcc.ed.ac.uk|http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+