July 17, 2005

What?! I didn't know XML had 'Secret Powers'!

Integration Developers News

Apparently I need to pay more attention to this whole "XML" thing because apparently it has some sort of "Secret Powers" which, if I were the "Fantasy Land" video game playing type, would mean I could summon from deep inside something that would kick everybody else's butt before they even had time to say "Uh oh...". But since I'm not that kind of hacker (takes all kinds of hacker type's to make the hacker world go round) I'll take it to mean this is a clever title to an article that basically reminds me that "when in doubt, use XML."

Good advice if not all together misleading and slightly overstated.

There's definitely a line where attempting to solve your problem with some sort of combination of XML, XSLT, XPath, and/or XQuery is definitely not the right thing to do. But there are a lot of good uses for XML that many of us still may not be using it for. This article covers five of them.

Tips for Unlocking XML’s Secret Powers 7/15/2005 | Print Version

by Vance McCarthy
A growing number of devs are finding benefits in learning hands-on XML skills. For example, devs at Quadrix Solutions have found that the more devs know about XML, they have in their hands the best "applications glue" they've ever worked with. Take a look a the 5 steps Quadrix engineers use to unlock the power of XML for integration.