Why Script XML?
You already know that an enabling technology is necessary for XML to be useful in Web applications (or any applications, for that matter). This enabling can come in a variety of different forms: programming languages, scripting languages, style sheet languages, and so on. Each of these XML enabling approaches has both benefits and drawbacks. I want to focus on using scripting languages as the enabling technology for XML applications because they're perhaps the easiest approach to accessing XML data in the context of Web pages.
Full-blown programming languages such as Java are already being used extensively for processing XML data, and they work quite well if you have both a programming background and an application that can easily ...
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