XML Binary Infoset Encoding (XBIS) is an encoding designed to eliminate most of the padding of XML text documents being passed between programs, while being faster to generate and interpret. The focus is more on speed than on size, so if document size is the major concern standard compression algorithms can offer superior results. The current Java implementation shows 4-8X performance benefits over standard XML parsers over a range of document types and sizes and across JVMs tested.
