Microsoft® Access® 2010 Inside Out

Using XML

Today’s modern companies are increasing productivity and cutting costs by finding ways to share more and more information online. When data can be shared in a universal format, it doesn’t matter whether an employee is down the hall, across the street, or thousands of miles away. The online sharing of information also makes it easier for companies to expand into global markets. Customers half a world away can explore a company’s products and services and place orders online. Companies can tap into vendors worldwide to find the best products at the best price.

The World Wide Web has certainly been an enabling technology for increasing productivity and expanding markets. The web works because of the universal acceptance of protocol and language ...