RE: question: Increasing factor for XML vs Binary

I'll interperet this as 'how much of a compression factor can be achieved by using a binary vs XML encoding of the same data.'  The usual answer, I'm afraid: it depFrom my literature survey,

-----Original Message-----
From:  Silvia.De.Castro.Garcia@esa.int
Date:  11/4/04 8:56 am
To:  public-xml-binary@w3.org
Subj:  question: Increasing factor for XML vs Binary 

Hi all,
        I would like to know the estimation order of the increasing factor 
for the XML format respect to the equivalent binary product, I mean, which 
is the order of the overload that will supose using XML instead of binary 
format?

Thank you very much,
Best regards,

Silvia de Castro.