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The new role of XML. (Guest Editorial).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-MAY-03 		Format: Online - approximately 860 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
In the history of XML to date, its role in application development has been mostly on the edge--it has been used primarily as the format for applications to communicate with each other, as a way to serialize data or configuration information, or for some other use at the "front door" of the application. The internal data model and processing that made applications run were entirely driven by objects (Java, C#, or what have you), relational database schema, and the like. Developers used the same approach to data modeling they always had and leveraged XML on the outside of their applications.

As XML has become more mainstream, and there is much more XML data floating around the enterprise, new technologies have been developed to better process and manipulate XML...

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