If you're the manager of a proposed new e-commerce site, you have to take the good news with the bad. The good news is that there's still lots of opportunity for growth. The bad news is that you have no room for mistakes.
ReadThere is a lot of interest in, and even more confusion over, XML--what it is and how to prepare for it. Is XML a standard? A new way to format Web pages? Yet another language to code? None of the above? The answer to each of these questions is "sort of." To boil down the concept to one sentence, XML is like an API for potentially every Web site.
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