General Applications
The final category in Figure 3.1, “general applications,” is meant to show a very small slice of the thousands of new XML applications being defined by end users and industry standards bodies every year. Whether it is a private markup language that is used only internally by a single company, or an approved language that is usable by an entire industry, this last category is what has truly driven the rapid growth of XML.
The one defining characteristic of applications that fall into this last category is that they are not really intended to be incorporated into other XML applications. Unlike a standard application, such as the mathematics markup language (MathML), a vocabulary for reporting quarterly financial results to ...
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