Originally Posted by Evo ok, I know what XML is and how you make it, but I don't understand it's uses.

Simple. XML is a way of structuring data. Nothing more, nothing less. Its uses are first and foremost in the transfer of data, whatever that data contains is not important.

It provides a simple, convenient and importantly, extensible way of structuring data which can be used by any number of platforms in any number of environments.

Your basic idea of a news data-store is one of the often quoted simple uses of XML, but its use can (and does) scale up to being the choice of data transferred between large-scale businesses both on- and offline all of the time.

- Salathe