Chapter 1. Introduction
XML is everywhere on the Web these days. Structured data of all shapes and sizes such as financial transactions, news feeds, health care records, even HTML is metamorphosing into XML. There is just no getting away from it!
I'm glad actually. The fact that XML is everywhere is a fundamentally good thing in my opinion.
Why? Well, thanks to XML, the Web is in transition from an enormous repository of display-oriented, unstructured, low-level data (HTML) into a repository of structured, heterogenous, content-oriented information (XML). This new, improved World Wide Web, housed on a bedrock of XML, presents programmers with awesome opportunities for innovative software development.
This suits me just fine because software ...
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