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by James Robertson.
Original Post: It's a floor wax AND a Dessert Topping
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File some of the quotes in this story under "buzzword bingo":
XML can cut in half the personnel costs of running a website
XML gives us the best chance to own our own data, because it's not in a proprietary format, so we're not beholden to a vendor
OpenDocument format, and applications that read it, are far more likely to be available in 300 years when our great-grandchildren want to read the electronic records we create today
Wow. I bet XML walks the dog, gets the bacon, and cooks it up too! Little did I know that saving a document in XML form prevents duplicates from cropping up too:
With XML, documents are only published once and can be viewed by any application. What's more, an error only needs to be corrected once and the changes are automatically made throughout any other version of the document. In addition to risk prevention, XML offers efficiency payoffs such as eliminating the need for a Web publisher.
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