Who Uses XML?
Everyone seems to be talking about XML these days, if it’s not Ajax, it’s some other tool that uses XML as the back-end, but what are people actually using XML for? It’s one thing to learn how to use XML, but what for? Here are some common uses for XML on the web right now: • web development • documentation • database development XML in Web Development In a way, you could argue that this is the most widespread use of XML, as XHTML. Because XHTML is simply HTML 4.0 reworked, many HTML 4.0 sites are actually using an invalid form of XHTML. But the benefit of XML is not that it already exists as XHTML, but that you can create web documents from XML using XSLT to transform your docu