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Why Use XML?

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Since its inception a decade ago, XML has become a standard ­technology for software engineers, all Web browsers are able to parse and show XML ­documents, and huge XML data resources are available from the Internet. Many of the documents are in XHTML, but other XML applications are quite common as well. XML has also become a format that is increasingly common in the files of local disks. This success would not have been possible without collaborative efforts throughout the Web community. Such world-wide collaborative development has included standards, software applications, and case implementations that can serve as models when developing new solutions. In this chapter we consider what kinds of benefits might be expected when adopting XML in organizations.