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Microsoft Word Applied xml a toolkit for Programmers Wiley docBog'liq Ceponkus, Hoodbhoy - Applied XML - Toolkit for ProgrammersBusiness Concerns
If you’re a CIO or in an organizational post where you have to be cost conscious, you
probably have some of the following concerns.
Who Owns XML? If I Use It, to Whom Do I Pay Royalties?
No single company or individual owns the XML standard. The World Wide Web
Consortium develops the XML standard. This is the same organization that creates the
HTML standard. Both standards are open standards, and you do not have to pay anyone
to use the standard for your applications. These standards are created with the hope of
engendering multilateral exchanges of information between computing applications.
Thus, you don’t really have to pay royalties to anyone for using the XML standard.
Why Should My Company Invest in Developing/Applying XML
Solutions?
Good question. No business has more hyped technologies than the information
technology business. However, we maintain that XML is the real deal. Every day, both
established and new companies are announcing programs/applications that are based on
XML.
Your firm should be prepared to invest in XML and its related technologies for several
reasons:
The costs involved are minimal.
The XML standard is open; therefore, you won’t need
to invest in expensive licensing agreements to use XML. The tools to support open
standards are usually free or shareware, so your development costs are minimized.
The major vendor browsers have all pledged wide-scale support of XML.
This being
true, you can immediately market your products/services to the Internet browsing
community (that is, to almost anyone who has a computer).
XML is uniquely suited to support localization into virtually every
language.
Because it is completely Unicode compliant, you are not limited to only
supporting Web users who understand English.
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