Article: XML: the lingua franca for B2B 'Net applications.(Technology Information)

A few years ago, I had to sell clients on the merits of XML. Today, XML has unequivocally become the universal format for structured documents and data on the Web.

Software vendors are slowly embracing XML. IBM was an early adopter and even became an evangelist. Cisco has completely opened its policy management software with XML. Sun intends to include a native XML parser within Java 2 Enterprise Edition and even offers a transformation compiler that converts XML scripts into Java code. XML is synonymous with portable data, as Java is synonymous with portable code: both are essential ingredients to next-generation Web-based applications. Microsoft, with the ...

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