On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote:

> Part of the build process converts ordinary XML into a "binary XML"
> format that is smaller and quicker to parse at runtime.
>

Yeah, it's basically a pre-processed DOM (well enough of a DOM to directly
do an XmlPullParser on top of).  Plus it also has other advanced features
and APIs for even faster attribute retrieval, compile-time type conversions,
string pooling, etc.

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