XML saves the world <?>

Tools impose choices

The popularity of XML has meant that there is now a wide range of tools available to do all kinds of XML processing, including:

• simple parsers and APIs
• schema-driven validators
• transformation language processors
• editors
• databases
• application service frameworks

and many more.

Once one gets beyond the simple generic tools noted above, the tools themselves, to be useful, need to impose some of their own design choices on an application that uses them.  So, the plethora of tools can be useful to the extent that they match an application designers own choices and the needs of the application concerned.