As a ColdFusion developer, hopefully by now you have heard at least a little
about XML (eXtensible Markup Language). Wikipedia defines XML as a
"general-purpose markup language" designed to "facilitate the sharing of
data" and also designed to be "relatively human-legible."
If you need primer on the basics of what XML is and the rules of how it's
structured, a good place to start is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML.
Nowadays we see XML in regular daily use. RSS Feeds, podcasts, and Web
Services are all XML, or use XML to exchange information. Even HTML is
related and basically a type of XML (loosely, but that's a long discussion
for another time). It's no coincidence that we see XML in use for
mass-distributed or syndicated content - XML is designed for a few key
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