No. One of the problems of XML is that it&#x27;s binary-intolerant, which means everything that isn&#x27;t pure text is a second-class citizen. That means pictures, sounds, documents, compressed stuff and most importantly, any encryption. We&#x27;ve all agreed that encryption is now considered to be mandatory and must be included in a protocol right from the start, so any serialization that doesn&#x27;t allow easy binary usage can&#x27;t be used.