XML Fever
The Extensible Markup Language (XML), which just celebrated its tenth birthday, is one of the big success stories of the Web.
Apart from basic Web technologies (URIs, HTTP, and HTML) and the advanced scripting driving the Web 2.0 wave, XML is by far
the most successful and ubiquitous Web technology. With great power, however, comes great responsibility, so while XML’s success
is well earned as the first truly universal standard for structured data, it must now deal with numerous problems that have
grown up around it. These are not entirely the fault of XML itself, but instead can be attributed to exaggerated claims and
ideas of what XML is and what it can do.
