  Extensible markup language (XML) is a technology that has been much hyped, so
that XML has become an industry buzzword. Behind the hype is a powerful
technology for data representation in a platform independent manner. As a text
document, however, XML suffers from being too bloated, and requires an XML
parser to access and manipulate it. XString is an encoding method for XML, in
essence, a markup language's markup language. XString gives the benefit of
compressing XML, and allows for easy manipulation and processing of XML source
as a very long string.
