XML experiences growing pains
Although the signal-to-noise ratio surrounding most emerging technologies is typically quite low, the potential of Extensible Markup Language (XML) seems to be off the chart. What began as, and still is, a simple tagging language, has emerged as a powerful e-business enabler -- a mechanism for data interchange that is being infused into all levels of corporate infrastructures. (1999-11-28)
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