| XML is a big open-standards victory for users. - Freely extensible
- No tag name limitations
- No language limitations
- Human-readable
- Can maintain data using basic text
tools like sed, awk, perl, Word macros
- Open standard
- In theory, XML users can't be held hostage to
vendor control
- Easy to implement
- There will be many powerful, cheap, off-the-shelf
commercial XML tools
- There is already an ever-growing set of free XML
tools (almost all of them Java-based)
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