Defining a standardized, interoperable "binary XML": why not!
Dare Obasanjo just published a
good summary of why standardizing a “binary XML“ is a bad idea. My musings on this topic can be read in the
Nov 2003 XML-DEV archives (such as the
mail containing the cited paragraph in today's
Cafe con Leche Quote of the Day) and in the
archives of the W3C binary XML workshop where I presented
Microsoft's (and this case also my) position.