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Originally posted by chupacabra
i'm not sure the adult industry was really effected in much of any way by the advent of XML, it does have many benefits for certain applications, but i'm not sure it has been used to further our arena that much... there probably are some cool things we could be doing w/ XML however..
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No, but whether you know it or not all current MS desktop applications use XML.
In fact, in the future, most MS applications will be 'XML Web Services' based.
This ties in to their subscription based service they will be releasing in the next few years.
Anyway, lets say I wanted to build an application for a client and have them pay for it year by year while updating the application every month or so with new features. (Part of the contract)
Basically they will download a 'Thin Client' and pay for the use of the application for one year.
The guts of the application would reside on my Server while storing all local information on their local hard drive.
Now, how is this beneficial?
2 Large points:
1. No more Piracy (Since you can track each user by a unique User ID) (MS Passport)
2. Automatic updating of the application with no user interaction required.
Also, since XML is basically a text document, its fast.
The future of Web based and Desktop application is XML.
It's the perfect solution for application communication via the web.