[DUG] SOAP pack size

[Robert martin]

Hi

We have got the basis of a SOAP application up and running.  It is 
transferring some data from one machine to a web server perfectly.

However after sniffing the transaction it seems that each 'packet' of 
data we send is about 1MB.  This is only about 1/3 of the data we plan 
to send and we anticipate receiving some data also.  A small number of 
users will be on dial up.  1Mb would be ok but it seems like we might 
end up around 5Mb.  This is too much. 

I know SOAP is a bulky XML protocol but does anyone know of ways to 
reduce the XML size (appart from encoding the data as a binary file, 
compressing it and sending). 

We might have to scrap what we have done so far.  But asside from the 
file size, the system works great.  It would be a shame :-(

Thanks
Rob