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Originally posted by NineNine
All XML is is a way of storing/transmitting data. It's equivalent to comma-delimited data files. Very, very simple stuff.
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Close- it does have a tree node structure that helps in manipulating the data and interfacing with the presentation layer, which is important. It's also a raw grammar, and can be manipulated just like a regular expression. Extensible description frameworks are also quite helpful in semantic searches.
These are some of the <i>big</i> reasons it's important in general. In this context, we're just talking about the syndication of news, and attribution to a source.