Structured Data
Internet and Intranet applications are not merely about marketing and sales, but foremost with the exchange of complex, platform-independent digital information. Aptly structured documents and data sets are of crucial importance for any type of business or organization.
Among its many features, XML allows for the seamless integration of text documents with database, Web, and even multimedia applications, thus enabling a new quality of automated data processing. Unlike HTML (which solely concerned itself with the presentation of data), XML for the first time lets you exchange data intelligently between even the most heterogenous applications and platforms.