What are the purposes of XML?

XML is designed to store, transmit, and exchange data. XML is not designed to display data.

XML can separate HTML from data
By using XML, your data can be stored outside HTML.

When we use HTML to display data, the data is stored in HTML. By using XML, data can be stored in a separate XML file. In this way, you can focus on using HTML for Data Layout and display, and ensure that changes to the underlying data do not involve changes to HTML.

XML data can also be stored in HTML pages as data islands. You can still focus on formatting and displaying data using HTML.

 

XML for data exchange
By using XML, data can be exchanged between incompatible systems.

 

In the real world, computer systems and databases can accommodate data in incompatible formats. One of the most time-consuming challenges for developers has been the exchange of data between systems on the Internet.

 

By converting data to XML, You can greatly reduce this complexity and create data that can be read by many different types of applications.

XML and B2B
By using XML, You can exchange financial information on the Internet.

 

In the near future, there will be a lot of XML and B2B applications.

XML becomes the most important language for enterprises to exchange financial information.

XML can be used to share data
By using XML, plain text files can be used to share data.

Because XML data is stored in plain text format, XML provides a data sharing solution independent of hardware and software.

This makes it easier for different applications to create data. It is also easier to extend or update a system to a new operating system, server, application, and browser.

 

XML can be used to store data
By using XML, plain text files can be used to store data.

You can also store data in files or databases using XML. You can write an application that stores information from a data warehouse, and a common application can be used to display the data.

XML makes your data more useful
By using XML, your data can be used by more users.

Because XML is independent of hardware, software, and applications, we can apply our data to more applications, not just HTML browsers.

Other clients and applications can access XML files as data sources, just as they are accessing a database. Your data can be used by various "Reading Machines" (agents, agents). XML allows your data to serve blind people or people with other physiological defects.

XML can be used to create a new language
XML is the mother of WAP and WML.

 

The wireless Markup Language (WML), which is used to mark Internet applications targeting handheld devices, is written in XML.

If developers are rational
If they are all rational, let future applications use XML to exchange data.

In the future, some word processing software, spreadsheet programs, and databases may appear. They can read data from each other in plain text format without any conversion programs.

What we can do now is to pray that Microsoft and all other software developers have agreed on this.