Binary Data in XML

Example 3. Binary XMPP representation ¶ <zero/><zero/><one/><one/><one/><one/><zero/><zero/> <zero/><one/><one/><one/><zero/><zero/><zero/><zero/> <zero/><one/><one/><one/><zero/><zero/><one/><zero/> <zero/><one/><one/><zero/><zero/><zero/><zero/><one/> <zero/><one/><one/><zero/><zero/><zero/><zero/><one/> <zero/><one/><one/><zero/><zero/><one/><zero/><one/> <zero/><one/><one/><zero/><zero/><zero/><one/><one/> <zero/><one/><one/><zero/><zero/><zero/><zero/><one/> <zero/><zero/><one/><one/><zero/><zero/><one/><one/> <zero/><zero/><one/><one/><one/><one/><zero/>

A dark-themed screenshot shows an example of representing binary data using repeated XML-like <zero/> and <one/> tags. The joke is the absurdly verbose and inefficient way of storing simple binary values in XML, making it a fitting reaction to overengineered data formats or bloated code.

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