Alex Malinovich schrieb:
... it is really terribly inefficient. What we really need to do is establish a STANDARD binary protocol for transmitting XMPP information. Essentially a binary-encoding standard for XMPP. Then as long as servers support that extension, clients will remain unaffected.
you can add compression over zlib which performs really well, also on mobile phones. Is this is not enough then just define a binary xml compression algorithm and use it with XEP-0138 Stream Compression. This would be the way to do it in XMPP in IMHO.
Alex