4.6. Conclusion
This chapter covered much of the considerations a developer should keep in mind when writing applications, particularly Web services-based applications, that use XML documents. Once these issues and considerations are understood, then a developer can make informed decisions about not only how to design and implement these XML-based applications, but if the applications should even be based on XML. In a sense, the developer is encouraged to ask this question first: “Should this application be based on XML?”
Once the developer decides that XML is appropriate for the application, then the next task is for the developer to design a sound and balanced architecture. Such an architecture should rely on XML only for what XML is good at. ...
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