>I'm just wondering about XML's long term viability with respect to increased bandwidth capacities in the future. Will it lose it's appeal?
If anything, increased bandwidth should increase the appeal of XML. The big plusses for XML have been flexibility and platform independence. The biggest minus has been data bloat as binary data is translated to ASCII with enclosing tags. With increased bandwith the data bloat becomes a much smaller problem.
Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson ** Rodes Design ** Virginia