XML has many benefits going for it as a format to move data between applications and/or servers. Some of the benefits include:

XQuery, which is a tool for searching for nodes with XML. We’ve previously looked at searching XML with XQuery. While different libraries may use different implementations, they generally have something that can be used.

If you are going to be working with a lot of XML files, you may find that similar names will be used. XML allows you to prefix a namespace on nodes that might share names. This is to reduce confusion, and is why you saw gesmes in the previous example. 

XML has an established record being used for many years, and thus is well supported, not only among languages, but also developers and applications. Many companies use XML for storing and transmitting data, and that isn’t likely to stop anytime soon.

Benefits of XML was originally found on Access 2 Learn

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Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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