The Future

You might have read in various magazine or newspaper articles that there has been a lot of hype about XML. As you read Part II and began to see how some of the ways of producing synergy between the members of the XML family can be exploited, you probably began to realize that some of the excitement surrounding XML is well justified. Some of the potential cannot yet be delivered. Some of the standards haven't been fully defined yet. Some of the tools to exploit that potential synergy haven't been released yet. The mindset of many developers hasn't yet made the adaptations necessary to work with XML in such a way as to make it work productively. But that is a transitional stage in the application of XML to a wider stage.

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