web design & development

XML technology

XML was developed by the World Wide web Consortium to address the growing requirements of commercial web publishing and enable the further expansion of web technology into new domains. This is accomplished by standardising the way information is searched for, exchanged, and presented. In other words, XML is a universal language for data on the web.

XML is the fastest evolving technology for web applications and has already become the de facto standard for representing information and business objects. It makes it so much easier to share data between different, incompatible systems - databases, hardware platforms, operating systems and applications. Because of all this XML serves as the foundation for a wide variety of web services, data entry and information exchange applications.

XML can be used to exchange data between different systems without the need for a prior description of the data's structure. Data such as customer information, credit card transactions, purchase orders, fulfillment requests, product information, and inventory status can all be converted to XML and shared across applications.

Here are a few main advantages of XML :

•	XML is modular and allows you to define a new data format by combining and reusing existing XML formats
•	XML is platform-independent, and supports internationalisation and localisation
•	XML enables flexible data structuring
•	XML allows you to present different views of the same data to different users
•	XML documents are in text format, so they are easy to create and process
•	XML is license-free, open, standardised and well-supported

Our developers provide a range of XML skills to assist you in deploying XML technology, from defining requirements to the development of data structures and project implementation. We can build cost effective and high quality XML solutions to improve the ways in which you enter, transfer, process and present your data.

Please contact us for more information on how XML technology can improve the efficiency of your web site or business information system.