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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:26 am
by patrikG
theda wrote:XML is mainly used for open-sourced projects and RSS. And you can appy CSS to an XML file... W3C's examples do it.
*cough* SOAP? Any major player in the IT industry not using XML would be way(!) behind their times. The power of XML is that it is an entirely customisable and, what is even more important, industry-standard data-wrapper.
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:29 am
by theda
Ever heard of Trillian IM? It uses XML. And Trillian isn't open-sourced either.
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:30 am
by patrikG
my point exactly.
Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 8:34 am
by feyd
at my company we used XML everywhere we can (sorta) certain things are kept basic, like ini config files are still ini's ... but the scripting subsystem for all pages is written entirely in an extension of XML for the most part. Although the backend varies wildly, depending on application requirements, but the front-end remains exactly the same.