Analyst Ron Schmelzer of ZapThink says that, until recently, companies have had no option but to create these kinds of documents by hand. XML authoring expands the possibilities by automating paperwork. “It’s for any document that has some sort of structure.” Putting in XML by hand, while an alternative, is far less efficient; in a document-deluged business environment “no one wants to code more than once.”

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