You have to like the oxymoronic nature of this announcement for EXI:

In the battle of bandwidth, binary beats text any time -- and that’s the purpose of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI), an emerging specification under development by the World Wide Web Consortium. EXI is a binary syntax for XML based upon the conclusions of the W3C XML Binary Characterization Working Group.

I'm just trying to wrap my head around the idea of "binary" and "XML" in the same sentence. The textual nature of XML was one of the main reasons we decided to go wild over it, right?

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