| Summary: | XML is a popular data format today, particular for data exchange over the
web or among applications. Standards based on XML are widely used in
lots of areas and for a number of applications. However, XML standards
are still in their early stage therefore it is interesting to explore how they
actually work in reality. In this thesis, we evaluate XML standards when
using for actual applications, and propose a set of hypotheses concluding
both advantages and challenges of using XML in real applications. We verify
our hypotheses through a case study on a civil engineering application, and
also review a few other areas to support them in general. Our study shows
that XML standards have powerful strengths that make XML an important
medium to support data exchange, but hard to use and far from perfect.
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