>I think people make to much out of XML. It is what it is. Basically a file format for data. Yes, it is nice that it is somewhat self documenting. But, it's just a fancy text file. Sure it's usefull, but don't use it if you don't need it.
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>One of my biggest pet peeves is when you read in a Mag or Article about someone programming in XML. XML is not a language or IDE or compiler, you can't program in it!

One interesting thing so far about XML is that it is good to have the advantage of using various applications to extract data from various sources using the XML protocol. For companies having such a need, it represents a big plus. I understand XML also have other advantages when being used with other technologies such as SOAP and .NET framework. One good think is to keep up to date with whatever relates to XML. Its role would certainly increased more and more in the next few months/years in the Web development business.