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The text basis of XML documents provides many benefits -- but not in terms of transport performance. Alternative representations of XML documents can be much smaller or faster to process than text. Part 1 of this two-part article covered the basics of alternative representations for XML documents. Here in Part 2, Dennis Sosnoski presents actual size and processing overhead comparisons for text, gzip, and XBIS representations of a range of XML documents. He concludes with a look at the growing movement toward standardization of non-text representations for XML.

Improve XML transport performance, Part 2