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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I need XML scripters, because I think I'm starting to get it. So far, I saw and understood that XML only provided a way to define data types and ways to display them, that it was only a definition language, something in between, an "abstract" layer for data. Now I see how it mixes with different tools as javascript to provide more than that, more flexible, faster loading pages, a possibility to create a client-side access to a data source, much more fun, as youngpup's site suggested. Now I can imagine huge applications built using XML, something more flexible than server-client common solutions. Something where an XML layer between data sources and clients allows rapid access to info, like the msdn explorer. Am I finally right? What is XMl in real world? Loading...
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