What Is XML Used For?
There seems to be agreement from all sides that XML has a bright future. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that he thinks use of XML will be a critically important trend in the industry. Why is this? What motivated XML's design?
The origins of XML
XML was developed in the mid 1990s under the leadership of Sun Microsystems employee Jon Bosak. Jon was looking for ways to use the Internet for more than just information delivery and presentation. He wanted to create a framework that would allow information to be self-describing. That way applications could guarantee that they could access just about any data. That in turn would clear the path to intelligent data-sharing between different organizations. And ...
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