My title is a bit unfair: "Efficient XML" does sound like a contradiction in terms, but the Efficient XML design chosen to be the basis for the proposed encoding specification by the W3C Efficient XML ...

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The Net's top standards body is getting closer to speeding up XML-based software, a move that could benefit everyone from cell phone carriers to television broadcasters to the military. But critics ...