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Subject:RE: XML - where's the beef? From:Berk/Devlin <armadill -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 02 Jun 2001 00:33:45 -0700
XML is a really mundane markup language that's so generic that it can go anywhere and do anything. There is no beef because in and of itself XML does nothing. It's the software that folks develop to interact with XML that's amazing.
And, here's the beef: http://java.sun.com/xml/
(Translation: EVERYONE who writes server-side code in the Java market uses XML. Everyone. Or they will soon.)
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:23:35 -0700, "SM Rush" <sellar -at- apptechsys -dot- com> wrote:
>... My company has been working with something that looks like XML for over 15 years. It's a database engine that basically uses a hierarchical structure (not relational) to organize data and then performs some operations
>(inversion) that creates a network of connections among data in the
>database.
Right.
And, actually, anyone who's accessed any large Web site has used XML lately. Or, well, maybe not if it was a Microsoft Web site.
If you haven't used XML yet, you will be using XML sometime soon. (But, you probably already have, though you might have known it.)
--Emily
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