Electronic Design, May 7th, 2001
XML makes data interchange easier on embedded systems by using a standard, extensible encoding scheme for structured data. It's not as efficient as custom binary data structures, but XML's text-based implementation allows standard encoding and decoding engines to convert data between XML documents and program data structures.
Beyond being useful for data exchange alone, XML is a framework for a host of other protocols and interpretations of data. XML and its variants are changing the way that the Internet deals with information as well as how embedded systems will handle information. Even H...
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