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Ive heard a lot of people say it is a superb mark up language and is the future of the web blah blah blah, but i am still unsure as to wat environment u wud use this language.
For example if u had a database driven web app, u wud use html, asp/php, and a database.
Wat im trying to say is were does xml fit into the equation for the personal web developer?
And is it a alternative to html or ....?
thanx
At the enterprise level, XML has been hugely beneficial for us. Like most people, we don't use it directly; we use it as a data exchange language on the backend, and have a Java+JSP transformer which converts and delivers it as HTML to browsers.
For instance, we have a system that lets customers view information about one of our lines of products. The information comes from multiple different sources, however-- a mainframe application, Oracle tables, manually input Excel and Word files, and outside web services. It was extraordinarily cheap (as opposed, say, to developing for Oracle) and relatively easy to build an automated system to export all of these different sources to a common XML language. That XML can then easily be sorted, combined, organized, and transformed for various formats and purposes or exported for repurposed use by other XML applications. On the same note, we can change languages or platforms more easily should the need arise.
