By Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com
The World Wide Web consortium, the standards body in charge of developing XML, said Tuesday that it has issued three recommendations designed to make handling XML-formatted data more efficient. The specifications have the backing of large industry software providers, including IBM, Microsoft and BEA Systems, which provide the software infrastructure to build and run XML data and Web services applications.
The W3C and vendors are looking at a variety of methods of speeding up the performance of XML, which can be slow for certain applications.
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http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-01-25-a.html