Even in its infancy, XML is being hailed as the technology that will take the Internet to a new level. Suited to fast and efficient business-to-business communications, XML might have great potential, but it still needs to mature, says Philip Hunter.
The web has a new offspring: extensible markup language (XML). XML is an attempt to simplify communication between systems and to speed up the retrieval of data - contained in a web page, other s...
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