[Nexus] XML format--A way to serialize binary?

[tieman]

Hello all!

After much trial and tribulation (linking on Windows is a nightmare!) I 
have all my windows programs using Nexus 3.0...on to linux!

Well, not quite yet...is there a way to serialize binary data into a 
more compact format with NAPI?  I generally need to write image data 
that can be quite large.  The "default" serialization method generates 
an ascii string for each pixel.  While this is very readable--it 
typically makes the files 4-5 times larger than encoding the data as 
binary.  It would be nice to be able to write the image data as a raw 
binary dump to save space.

I don't anticipate needing the use the XML format often, but XML would 
make it easier to write a web app that can browse the data online for 
instance...

Thanks!

Brian