Conclusion
XML is here to stay. It is used for a wide variety of applications already, and the specifications continue to flow steadily from the W3C consortium. I'm working on a new application that will store data in the database in XML format (as an XML document) to easily capture a particular set of data in “snapshot” form.
The hierarchical nature of XML and the tools that have sprung up around it are astonishing and powerful. XML might be only a language used to capture data in a structured format, but it's quickly becoming the standard method for integration and data-description tasks. Web Services will continue to evolve and use XML even further, and more standard XSL-FO processors will evolve to produce virtually any output format that ...
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