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Many information transfer standardization efforts focus excessively on minutiae of the transport format (such as XML), to the detriment of the data model. Information standards could be created more expeditiously if the attention lavished on the transport format were applied to the data model, with automatic generation of the transport format. Best practices from software development help as well.