Strategic XML

Standard Applications

Although from a practical standpoint all XML applications are created equal, certain applications are so general-purpose that they fall into the purview of standards organizations (like the ISO or the W3C). These standard applications are intended to be used, in turn, by other developers who are building their own special-purpose applications.

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)

One of the primary design goals of XML was to provide an environment where document content (such as a phone number) could be separated from presentation information (such as the formatting instructions making the phone number bold and italic). Although XML documents are very well suited to expressing information, at some point they generally must ...