Preface
Why the subject matter is important
In a remarkably short period, XML has arguably become the most important language for marking up documents for the World Wide Web and for industry in general. Equally important, XML is rapidly becoming the lingua franca for marking up traditional business data, for exchanging information between business partners and between application programs, and for expressing a host of concepts that improve the usability of computer systems.
While it may be tempting to view XML as a “silver bullet” –a solution to all of our problems – the truth is a bit more prosaic: XML is merely a tool (admittedly a very important one) that can help solve a significant range of problems. Like most tools, XML introduces tradeoffs ...
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