[Reference] about XML

From: http://www.microsoft.com/china/windowsserver2003/evaluation/overview/dotnet/buildsite.mspx

XML technical advantagesSo far, XML has been around for many years and has provided many technical advantages, so that everyone regards it as an "international common language" in the Web field ". For a web site, the most important thing is that XML allows developers to separate content from its representation, significant contributions have been made to ensuring that web content is easily reused across multiple locations and across different devices.

XML's powerful performance is partly due to the complementary relationship between the technology and HTML. Specifically, XML allows web pages to play a role in the form of database records, thus providing a practical guarantee for sharing information resources with other people, systems, languages, and processes. This capability gives special economic value to XML-based website creation activities, which need to translate websites into multiple languages (a process called localization) is particularly prominent.

Reuse of a single content source and content
On the premise that static Web pages are jointly maintained by multiple teams within the company, it is not surprising that popular content is repeatedly used in different locations. However, if the copied content only accepts a few modifications on each site, the above situation may cause problems. If you need to update the content, it is difficult for the relevant personnel to determine that all necessary locations have been updated, when a specific content has been copied to more than two or three locations, this problem will become more prominent.

To solve the problem, you can create a "content repository" for different sites to enable the content with the same source to appear in multiple locations in different formats. Content Uniformity is ensured through the unique source. Web sites based on Windows Server 2003 operating systems can use XML for content design, which makes a huge step forward towards achieving this goal.