title: Converting plist to binary plist
body: <p>Apple strongly recommends using the binary plist format when reading large XML-based data sets into iPhone apps. Among their reasoning is the fact that XML parsing is very taxing on the iPhone. However, this requires that files residing on the remote web server be converted first.</p>
  
  <p>For frequently-changing content, it is not acceptable to do this manually. If at all possible, I'd like to avoid having a web based app call the command line to perform the conversion (i.e., plutil). </p>
  
  <p>Are there publicly available algorithms to perform this conversion?</p>