Program source code, batch files, macros and scripts are straight text and stored as ASCII files. HTML and XML files are also ASCII files. Text editors such as Notepad create ASCII files as their ...

A binary option for XML, which is a text-based format. Binary versions of XML take up less space, and, more importantly, requests and responses take less network bandwidth. For example ...

These applications usually use XML to transport data. However, they may also transport data as plaintext or JSON text (see the Understanding AJAX section). AJAX applications use an engine that acts as ...