XML can do nothing - it's data. Applications can do something. I do read MSDN, and I know, that XML can't do anything, that hasn't been done before, just like any other software technology. New technologies make things easier, but I really don't see how XML makes things easier.
If XML is about Microsoft opening up its file formats, then that would help a great deal. But they could have done that without XML, they just had to choose some ASCII representation of their data.
There was a lot of talking in the open-source community about using XML as configuration file formats. This hasn't been done, mostly because with XML, files become unreadable... When transporting/converting data, XML also hasn't catched on, mostly because the CSV format does it better.
I can see an idea in having XML in .net, but XML files don't see to be much of a use without a good data format description, which I seldom see accompanying the XML document... |
