Tue 2002-12-24 18:45, Jan Vermeulen (2:280/100) wrote to Scott Little:

 > XML is good for local, not for global wide use.

I don't know where you got that idea.

"XML was designed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to streamline
data exchange across the Internet. XML is a "self-describing
system," meaning that the data carried within XML files is defined by
using a set of agreed upon terms. It is closely related to HTML, the markup
language used for web-page creation. In fact, XML works similarly to HMTL.
A website written in HTML can be shared universally; it doesn't matter if
the page was designed on a Mac, Windows, or Linux computer. When data is
written in XML, it can be transferred between applications, regardless of
the factors that would typically mandate transforming the data into a
useable format."

- http://www.recruitersworld.com/articles/xml/xml.asp

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