Excerpt from "Syncml makes your data":
We can release the information in XML from handling it, this is the most exciting place to XML. Almost every computer that has had such an experience, and other people in his data cannot be accessed. The reason is that they did not use the same word handler, or it is four or five years after they can't access their own data, because The procedures used at the time have already been out of time. Even if your luck is good enough, you have not encountered these problems, you may also know the inconvenience caused by binding to a particular software suite, because all of your data is "belonging to this suite) format.
So XML arrived, accompanied by the recognition of the value of the open standard, data began to liberate from the ban on a single application. Today's software developers understand that data is to move back and forth between people and organizations. The upcoming Microsot Office 11 also supports XML, which is better than a person in writing will, and it is no longer able to bind the data on a single application.
BTW, I heard that although MS has XML format, it has made a lot of restrictions, such as licenses (just allow MS you or the developer to use this XML format?), If so, it is more like dying Ghost, huh, huh. In addition, there are some people who have seen their XML format to have a marking design, such as hodgepodges that seem to be styles and structures.