On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:43 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> as long as you don't care about the (observed) 100:1 ratio of XML glop
> to data in, e.g., the Python XMLRPC stuff, it's great. Yep, I observed
> that ratio when Xen made the cut to XML-RPC: 3000 bytes of RPC to send
> 30 bytes of data. It's impressive: gigE gets reduced to 10 Mb ethernet
> in no time; XML-RPC turns the network clock back by 20 years.

A friend on AIM who I showed this quote to suggested XML should drop
named close tags as a solution: <tag>stuff</>

"C and Ratfor programmers find BEGIN and END bulky compared to
{ and }." - bwk