Re: What's XML's Purpose??

hold on here, XML and HTML have, as far as I'm concerned, nothing to do with each other. I'm using XML to link databases on the sites I write (with PHP) with disparate databases on other Inernet servers. A good example would be linking up with UPS's online rates application server. I send an XML request with shipment info and get a response XML file with the pricing, time to delivery, etc.. The tags just tell you what the info between them is. XML is awesome, and will become very big in the next couple years. You can write all kinds of business 2 business appz with it. -dave ""Chris Anderson"" <chrisderson@ameritech.net> wrote in message news:000201c0c501$50264b60$0d1012d1@null... Alright I'll start this out by saying I have a subscription to "Visual Basic Programmers Journal". Before I converted and realized that I loved PHP so much I used ASP. Well it seems that in this magazine that XML is a hot topic in the MS world. I know XML can be used by PHP, but is there a point? I only know 2 things about it: 1) You can make your own tags: <mytag> </mytag> 2) It's supposedly good for databasing? If its for databasing, why not just use MySQL( or a variation). Am I missing something here?