Chapter 9. Web Presentation with XML and XSLT
XML shows up in every section of this book, just as it seems to be showing up in every imaginable place in information technology. In this chapter, we'll see how XML can be used to create a user interface that can support multiple types of devices. In later chapters, we'll see how it can be used to provide messaging and remote procedure call capabilities in distributed applications. We've already seen XML used for deployment descriptors and Ant buildfiles. It is truly becoming the universal format for portable data representation.
Whether XML will continue to expand into every aspect of computing remains to be seen. Perhaps we're just going through a cycle of XML hype and in a few years it will be ...
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