XML delivers: hyped as a flexible, simple means of sharing data, XML implementations are proving the claims were real.(Data Exchange)

Control Engineering, October, 2003 by Harrold, Dave

It's been more than five years since the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3c.org) released XML (eXtensible Markup Language) version 1.0. Since then, countless articles have claimed that XML's simple, text-based format would change forever how data are exchanged among different authoring applications on and off the Web.

Five years after its introduction, complex implementations are proving the benefit claims attributed to XML were accurate.

Keeping the promise

Many of those proclaiming that XML provided a data exchange technology breakthrough did so from a business-to-business perspective.

One exception came from a small group of dedicated individuals toiling to define a standard that identified the general functions and...

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