Notes from my terminal

W3C Announces Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets

There seems to be some activity in the field of an alternative, webservice-friendly representation of XML. I'm very much interested in the results, but I can't make up my mind whether this will be a good or bad thing. With XML we finally have "smart ASCII" and with SOAP we can (among other things) do RPC with wire dumps intelligible to mere mortals. Going back to a binary format seems like a big step backwards for me at the moment, but then I really do need more details. Posted by jens at July 25, 2003 12:12 PM